UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’

Lisa Morris-Almond did not travel to Norway as planned after the wedding she was going to was cancelled. Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax authorities told her their records showed she had emigrated.

Lisa Morris-Almond is one of thousands of people who have had their child benefit frozen as part of a botched crackdown on benefit fraud.