The Benefits of hindsight

IN episode one of The Great British Benefits Handout, narrator Graeme Hawley asked of the six families receiving a £26,000 windfall: “Will they blow the cash and struggle to run their own lives?”

Welfare expert Lee Healey, on Thursday’s sixth and final episode, to single mum Sophie facing eviction: “Money has gone low enough that we may need to access some Government support for the time being.

“You can work and earn some money but also claim help for rent through housing benefit and for council tax through council tax reduction.”

Graeme, I’m going with: “Yes.” This week’s Quiz Show Geography Expert of the Week award goes to… Ocean, which sea separatesparates TIPPING Point: “Part of the Atlantic Netherlands and Denmark?”mark?” the east coast of the UK from the Contestant: “Pacific.”