I visited around 1600 properties a year over a 3 1/2 year period on contract. That's a lot of visits, in a lot of benefit recipients homes. Other guys on the firm did the same. I saw my first "rear projector TV" in a house with no carpets and barely any furniture. I saw a baby asleep in a draw form some old chest, on the floor, car on tick worth several thousand on the grass outside. As time went on, all the guys on my firm that I spoke to, marveled as to how nearly all of these people had several tv's, sky/cable subscription. I know it's not a nice thing to deal with but there are a huge amount of benefits wasters. There are many genuine cases of course but pretending that the cheats and wasters are a tiny minority, I feel, is a little naive. Maybe I'm behind the times and having the movie channels is now seen as essential?