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HMRC to review suspending 23,500 child benefit payments
- HM Revenue & Customs suspended payments for about 23,500 households after using travel data to conclude claimants had left the UK permanently.
- The government launched a crackdown in September, and HMRC said the pilot saved 17million in wrongful payments, prompting a review of 23,500 suspensions based on travel data.
- Errors emerged most sharply in Northern Ireland, where 78% were wrongly flagged as abroad and 129 families were flagged though only 28 had actually left.
- HMRC apologised to claimants and updated processes to give one month to respond before suspending payments, and it will review cases using PAYE data to reinstate funds where UK employment continues.
- Under existing rules child benefit usually stops after eight weeks abroad, but many affected say payments were halted after short holidays; questions remain and HMRC aims to complete its review by the end of next week.
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‘We’re very sorry’: HMRC admits error as 23,500 families wrongly lose child benefit
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is reassessing its withdrawal of child benefit from about 23,500 claimants after an anti-fraud initiative wrongly identified thousands of families as having permanently left the United Kingdom
·London, United Kingdom
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