A very bad programme, made by very bad people. William Beveridge's ghost4:54pm Mon 23 Jan
Rating 1.3
Racist & xenophobic BBC The ethnic minority is almost always portrayed as scourgers what a shame considering!!!!
The BBC is clearly promoting xenophobia. #stopBBCxenophobia11:45am Mon 23 Jan
TAKE IT OFF THE AIR!!!! The programme Saints or scroungers really needs to be taken off air! there are people who are benefit fraudsters and they will be caught! However this programme is causing hundreds of genuine people to loose their benefit!!!! Disability living allowance was originally set up to provide financial support to those at a disadvantage of finding suitable employment due to illness/disability....NOT just for the sick! you can still work on DLA but maybe would only be able to do a certain type of work.......this programme is causing genuine DLA claimers to become agrophobic in fear of being seen on a ''Good day'' and reported..........ITS MAKING THINGS WORSE FOR GENUINE PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILY'S!........TAKE IT OFF THE AIR!!!!! OR AT LEAST REMOVE ANY DLA RELATED STORIES!!!!! KERRYARM11:43am Thu 19 Jan
And all the while... The bankers smile... frontbench backhand8:33am Wed 4 Jan
get everyone off benifits they are a dissgrace, get a job. but i would like to continue receiving mine, as i am a special case long term unemployed. planets5:30pm Thu 29 Sep
benefit fraud i need help.. fought paralisis twice and get dla. however for some reason people get jealous because i drive round in a new car and start reporting me sayin nothing wrong, follow me for two weeks n see what its really like..... please emma emm11:08am Thu 29 Sep
r branson is r branson too big for your prog? ray jury4:11pm Mon 8 Aug
Fraud I am concerned about a guy who is benefit frauding using a friend's address, but the local council and tax office are not helping. I need to get in touch with Dominic and wondered how to go about that?! Anyone? wb2f12:47pm Sun 7 Aug
Ex Housind boss avoids prisons Asuman Ozban former chair women of Lambeth Housing fraudulently stole 35k and a further 140k and was only given 30weeks suspended this was sending mixed messages she should have been given the same if not more time than the public she was in a position of trust and from the programs that I have seen others for far less and not in charge of public or goverment money stole thing she could get away with it and she has. She earnd almost 42-43k she should of gone to prison her department sent may people to prison and she should got the same ONE RULE FOR ONE 12:27pm Thu 4 Aug
not long enough why do the cheats only get months for stealing thousands of pounds they should be locked up for a lot longer the sentence now is laughable and does not act as a deterrant at all
annoyed12:15pm Tue 2 Aug
investigative journalism? Three people in my area died from their conditions while on appeal after Atos found them fit for work, you want to find benefit fraud look no further than the £100 million pounds paid to Atos to fraudulently remove peoples rightful benefits, don't see that being investigated. Bob3:01am Tue 26 Jul
White are saints, black and Asians are devils Am sick to the teeth, almost every week, non whites are seen as the scroungers and the whites are whiter than white. Please can the producer stop displaying blacks has the criminals only.When will this country wake up and realise that white people are not exempt from committing crime. Tori7:57pm Mon 20 Jun
its a bit one sided show more of the people in charge fiddling, and they do. get real8:16pm Mon 30 May
Not great Ok for daytime TV but not what I'd expect to be shown at prime time. Sara 5:43pm Mon 30 May
lets pick on some benifit cheat, whilst the real theiving politisions steal from the rest of us. get real7:25pm Tue 10 May
Black or white ? As with all these programs that make a crass black or white statement I find saints and scroungers formulaic and predictable. The production teams do not have the finesse or the courage to delve into the grey areas that affect most of us. Other " culprits" include watchdog and most of the cops in cars shows. lampskio7:06pm Mon 9 May
Reporting someone How do i go about reporting someone who is claiming benifits and has a really posh car, personal number plate and home in India and frequently travels there? They also drive about in a white van. It annoys me they are getting away with it Bagpuss3:17pm Tue 25 Jan
scroungers and saints Ive watched a few of these now and I cant help feeling that while its good that cheats are caught out, These cases are very small potatoes compared to what the NWO-FED-IMF bankers are up to they have scammed billions off the middle and working classes, their latest victim being poor Ireland. I see the benefit fraud issue as a smoke screen and tiny in comparison to the real fraudsters who are also masters of war and the real manipilators and pupateers of all the main news channels papers and EVEN 10 downing street! Truth soildier10:43pm Thu 20 Jan
the dhs lottery. like members of parliment, you run the risk og getting caught when you fiddle. strange though, that the majority of people caught fiddling, are not of british origin. get real11:53am Tue 18 Jan
watch ur tv programme there a man with no kidney same as me my dla been stop becuase i can walk more then 50 meters am just like the man in ur tv show i get nothing willy11:34am Tue 18 Jan
government propaganda this is nothing short of getting the people against the people just what the government wants what happened to all the mp's who committed fraud by lying about there expenses just because most ''agreed to pay it back'' doesnt mean they didnt commit fraud yet another case of ''pick on gthe little people'' im disgusted kalee7:49pm Mon 17 Jan
Sickening Tripe ! Absolute RUBBISH ! Complete waste of air time. Screen free charity appeals instead.Sentimental bleeding heart holyier- than- thou interfering big society claptrap of a program with top telly gnome Do it all Dom. Come on David (Cameroooon for it is he, son of Maggie T.)Let's see a sustained program of affordable social housebuilding with skills and jobs for all and follow it live ! Maggie T.7:38am Mon 17 Jan
SHORT **** Being such a short ****, makes him have a chip on his shoulder, somebody should knock the smug p****s block off. TOPWAK (TRUTH TELLER)2:21pm Fri 14 Jan
What happened to the BBC...?? Pity the BBC can't cover the corporate tax dodgers to the same degree. Come on, the money scrounged by the common people covered here must cost as much to chase up by the authorities. It's a disgrace that at least the same effort is not put into chasing the politicians and their corporate masters - but then they have power Grommit1:31pm Fri 14 Jan
Race stereotyping Nearly all the scroungers are black or from an ethnic minority. Nearly all the saints are white ethnic. Is this a true representation of saints and scroungers? Magro11:50am Fri 14 Jan
Dominic Littlewood stop picking on little people and target mp exs bankers the real villians. i hope one day you find yourself in a hole and someone takes that smug look of your face jgpor9:19am Fri 14 Jan
tax dodgers benefit scroungers Why not do a program on tax dodgers, if you’re so passionate about benefit scroungers costing the tax payer millions?
You could start with the current government who are all millionaires and use tax loopholes to avoid paying tax!
lee tax payer11:38am Fri 7 Jan
help for cancer patients, but not arthritcs I've been trying to claim benefits for 22 weeks now without success. I am riddled with arthritis. My MP and a CAB person have so far made no progress. Having had two operations last year and with another hip replacement to come I will lose my home. I'm 53,a lone parent with two teenage children, one at Cambridge University. He now wants to leave to find a job and support me. He's one of the brightest brains in the country - google Alex Goodenough for further info. He's worked hard to get where he is and so have I and his siter in supporting him. What a waste for the nation's future. jan12:46pm Wed 5 Jan
shocked by the comment below... Behave yourself Kpm.
My sister recently divorced and she has found herself on Benefits whilst she now gets on with her life (after years of being a home housewife)
She gets a mere £60 a week to pay all her bills and food.
Me and my husband spend more than that per week on our food shopping.
So how the hell can you say someone on benefits can buy luxury things and afford to run a Cherokee car!
Mary Holton-Smythe1:52am Wed 5 Jan
Claimants no crims indeed But some are.
You see them doing nothing - watching tele - buying all sorts of luxury things.
My ex neigbour never worked - long time unemployed but has a sherokee car - she told me one day that I am wasting my time working on minimum wage, paying taxes and that she is well off on benefit than getting out of bed at 7:00am - come home at 5:30pm. Kpm12:05pm Tue 4 Jan
An eye opener This progam is very good,'cause there's a lot of corruption taking place in this country.Its never too lae to mend Expose296:29pm Mon 3 Jan
baldy Horrid little man who seems to think he is some kind of Robin Hood. Would love to see someone punch him in the face and wipe that smug grin of his face Wille Thorne5:41am Mon 3 Jan
Acting Reconstruction I filmed some Reconstruction scenes for the new series of 'Saints & Scroungers' 2011 and it was a pleasure working with the Production Team. Anikka Forbes12:03am Mon 3 Jan
Racist! Yet more white people commiting benefit fraud?! Evidently the ratio is not reflective of all nationalities that commit benefit fraud. It is quite racist to target specifically white people. No nationality should be scrounging benefits that are not due to them, but this program is typical BBC PC made.
clare7:54pm Mon 11 Oct
Targetting the wrong criminals This programme demonstrates all that is worst about society - petty jealousies obscuring
the bigger issues that go undocumented. Dominic Littlewood, get off people trying to live in mediocre poverty and get onto the multi-billionaires that are laughing in your face. Toe7:40pm Mon 11 Oct
Black and white world The BBC has really let its self down on this one. I would have thought that a programme polarizing society like this one would have been scrap paper on the cutting room floor in a jiffy. Tories in the BBC; now that's a worry! RealWorld5:54pm Mon 11 Oct
DLA? I have dx of Raynaud's disease,arthritis,Fibromyalgia,ME, bilateral ulna nerve compression...amongst other painful but not yet disabling conditions. Although very painful I do manage to mobilize very little with crutches - but I need full time carer I have just been rejected - yet again for any DLA - and this after appeal. I am now trapped in my home. This is not life and it is the Govt who are the benefit cheats. lena4:38pm Tue 28 Sep
Disabilities So why is that family so large?????
Dad disabled, daughter disabled and 10yr old looking after her mum.... Sorry but I find it rather obscene that the family is so very fat!!!! mama7:50pm Mon 27 Sep
Hmmm Has Dominic Littlewood got some incriminating footage of a BBC commissioning editor in his safe? Tangerine7:51pm Mon 16 Aug
Not all claimants are crims Great idea. The british public already view long term disabled as scroungers. Showing the small percentage who take the pee just fuels the fire against all the genuine cases.
We feel low enough, thanks. cagger6:38pm Mon 16 Aug
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