From Cradle to Grave: Broken Promises

Tonight, in the first programme of a special two part investigation on the reality of the welfare state, reporter Stephen Bradshaw looks at broken promises. Like families having to sell their parents homes to pay for old age care which they thought the state would provide, and the redundant who discover that claiming benefit traps them into dependency on the state.

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S1996E04 - From Cradle to Grave: Paying for the Future