Benefits Britain 1949: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Benefits claimants volunteer to live by the rules of the first year of the welfare state, to examine how our safety net should work. Everyone's got an opinion about the welfare state, whether we're bemoaning 'scroungers' or pointing out how it's failed the vulnerable, but there's no consensus on how it can be fixed. In this bold piece of living history, current benefits claimants volunteer to live for a week by the rules of 1949 to explore how our safety net should work.

Series details

• Title: Benefits Britain 1949
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2013-08-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-08-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24759
• IMDb ID: tt3109614
• TVDB ID: 272461

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-08-12; final listed air date 2013-08-26; episode order: 3.

Source and licence

Adapted from Benefits Britain 1949 on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.