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17th October 1984: Jack Duckworth always went too far when taking a chance and never more so than when he put in an exaggerated DHSS claim. He emptied most of the household furniture into Mike Baldwin's emptied van, panicking Vera when she came home for lunch, and then span the inspector a story that his wife and son had left him, he'd had to flog his belongings bit by bit, and his aged mother, who he had to support, spent her days on the council tip foraging. Things seemed to go well until the inspector came back very late in the day and saw a room full of furniture with Jack, Vera and Terry tucking into steak and beer. When hearing that she was Jack's "aged mother", Vera took offence and offered her husband not one jot of support to back up his story...
 * For more information see Episode 2457 (17th October 1984).