Benefits Camp

In Benefits Camp, host Rutger Castricum takes six unemployed families on the vacation of a lifetime. What the families do not know is that the trip is entirely geared toward getting them off benefits and back to work. After the first day of relaxing and having fun, Rutger tells them ‛the bad news’ – and that is quite a shock. Each week Rutger sets a series of tasks for the families, in order to reignite their will to work. Rutger offers them moments of reflection and does not hold back when he questions them about their lives and the way they live it. He confronts them with their own weird ways of thinking and shortcomings when it comes to making the right life decisions. Why are they on benefits? And how do they think they can change this? Viewers follow the families during the camp and afterwards - have they seized this opportunity to get their lives back on track?