Andrew Snowden MP says government ‘must immediate take action’ on failures of anti-fraud benefits crackdown
Calls are being made for an urgent independent inquiry after thousands of families were stripped of child benefit due to flawed Home Office travel data that claimed to show parents going on holidays and not returning.
Andrew Snowden, the Conservative MP for Fylde and the party’s assistant whip, said the government “must take immediate and transparent action” to address the failures of the anti-fraud benefits crackdown.
“Thousands of families have had essential child benefit payments wrongly suspended because of unreliable or incomplete data,” he said.
Snowden called for “a full, independent review of how this system was authorised, including how such unreliable travel data was used to make decisions on family benefits”. He said the findings must be published in full.
