HMRC to review suspension of child benefit payments to 23,500 people

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Those cases affected are now being reviewed after a growing number of complaints from people who briefly left the UK and returned to find their payments had been stopped

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HMRC is reviewing decisions to strip child benefit payments from 23,500 people after using individuals’ travel data to conclude that they had emigrated from the UK.

HMRC to review suspension of child benefit payments to 23,500 people

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