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

The government has launched a crackdown on child benefit fraud - (PA)

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.

The benefit is normally stopped if someone spends more than eight weeks living outside the UK, but many of the people affected complained that the tax body stopped their payments after they went abroad for a holiday.