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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ruby Flanagan

Thousands of benefit claimants may have wrongly been paid money after Government error

Tens of thousands of European Union citizens may have been incorrectly paid benefit payments following a Home Office data error.

The issue has been raised by the Independent Monitoring Authority (IMA), a body set up following Brexit, who has warned over 140,000 people could be affected.

The Home Office was said to have wrote to individuals who had been refused EU Settled Status, but it did not immediately update its eVisas database.

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