Severe Discomfort

Lyn Walker could be your neighbour. Loyal, long-suffering wife. Proud and protective mother. Doting and dutiful grandmother...

And benefit cheat.

Called to an Interview under Caution at 'the Social', Lyn needs sound advice. But husband Terry insists it's 'all a stupid mistake' and that he'll give them a piece of his mind...!

Struggling on half their previous income, owing tens of thousands of pounds and with the prospect of worse to come, how can the Walkers hide their shame from their family and their neighbours? And are they really guilty of fraud at all?

Hilary Carrington and her colleagues at the Solent Welfare Rights Project don't think so and will use all of their experience and ingenuity to fight the Walkers' cases, despite precarious funding, a spiralling workload and other, more personal, distractions...