Britain’s Forgotten Pensioners | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries

One in five pensioners - 2.1 million people - live in poverty in the UK. Dispatches follows four older people through the winter as they struggle to make ends meet. Includes discussions of mental health and suicide. SUBSCRIBE: About #4Docs: Welcome to Channel 4 Documentaries. Here you’ll find cutting-edge factual content from our award-winning 24 Hours in A&E to Dispatches and provocative and empowering original true stories. We pride ourselves on landmark, ground-breaking stories which reflect the diverse experiences and challenges we’re all facing across the length and breadth of the UK (and beyond). Watch the True Crime: Unravelled playlist here: Watch the True Crime playlist here: Watch the 24 Hours in Police Custody playlist here: Watch the 24 Hours In A&E playlist here: Watch the Geordie Hospital playlist here: Watch the True Stories playlist here: Watch the How To Get Rich playlist here: Watch the My Body, My Rules playlist here: Watch the Murder Island playlist here: Watch the Secret Services playlist here: Stream on Channel 4