Anna van Praagh
(Picture: Matt Writtle)With all my aspirations for “living my best life” in 2022, I hadn’t envisaged I would find myself caught up in what is essentially benefit fraud. But hey, life’s full of surprises.
Turns out a while ago my salary went up and I didn’t realise that meant I was no longer entitled to child benefit. Two years ago they informed me of my mistake, I apologised profusely and asked how to repay, and well, ever since let’s just say I have been caught up in a truly Kafka-esque nightmare with HMRC.
