I think I’m actually addicted to watching documentaries about British people on benefits.

So people like this can get council housing with no problems whatsover. Just taking her at her word. But someone trying to reclaim their house from illegal squatters have to go through absolute hell.

The fact that the Housing authority doesn't do in-depth background checks before granting housing benefits is absolutely astonishing

"tough penalties" AKA, a suspended prison sentence and community service, yea, that'll teach em

They're all getting suspended sentences I'm sure they'll really learning their lessons 🙄🙄

7 in the family, 3 bedrooms and it's not fair. Stop having kids, you are lucky with what you have.

There doesn't seem to be any real punishment for fraud.

Huh?,  You have 7 people in the family & “it’s not really fair” because you only have 3 bedrooms?   Damn, what arrogance & sense of entitlement!  That’s the problem - social services breeds people ready to live on the government dole.  What happened to responsibility for your own life choices??  I know there are truly needy folks who are in their predicament due to no fault of their own.   Those are the people you help - not able bodied people who drain the system.  I feel for the taxpayers of the UK.

There are public records of all property ownerships in the UK.  These councils are just incompetent

Here's a thought, don't have 5 kids when you can't afford adequate housing. The level of entitlement evident among some people is maddening.

I still cant get my head around the fact that these arseholes would do this and deprive fellow citizens of somewhere to live - oh naïve me!! There must be a way to stop this - its sickening

These people sicken me - not only are they raking it in financially but also jumping the housing queue where genuine people requiring social housing are waiting.  Hipkiss's sentence was far too lenient in my opinion.  She should have received a custodial sentence.  Not a serious offence? Really?  Depriving needy and genuine people of a home and profitting on it as well is disgusting.  These scammers should be put in prison - its a crime and a serious crime at that,

These sentences seem very lenient  considering how calculated the perpetrators were.

Every person who applies for government housing should have a background check done to make sure that there is no other properties in their name, it should be mandatory. The fact that they don’t do this just blows my mind.

The problem is with your housing council... how can one person own three council houses... its ridiculous

I just love how a large percentage of British TV is basically watching how miserable chav lives are.

The council should do a check on everyone applying to see if they have other properties b4 giving them the keys

In typical British fancy they have a fancy term for the projects. Council estate sounds so regal.

I'm in a British wormhole I can't make my way out 😂😂😂😂

There's seven in the family and only a three bed house, which isn't acceptable. What an ungrateful man.