Britain’s £48 Billion Benefits Scandal Exposed | Dispatches Investigation

With the recent rise in working-age people on sickness benefits - many of them under 35 - Dispatches asks what's driving the surge?

First shown: 2 Dec 2024

00:00 Introduction
01:21 Long-term sickness benefits rise
07:41 Fit notes from doctors
11:16 Manchester job crisis
16:00 Keighley, West Yorkshire
21:04 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
26:29 The doubling of sickness benefits
33:18 Salford locals
40:21 Welfare system in crisis

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