Benefit Busters

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Benefit Busters
Created by Studio Lambert
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Production
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release20 August (2009-08-20) 
3 September 2009 (2009-09-03)

Benefit Busters is a British documentary series, broadcast on Channel 4 during August and September 2009.


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