HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error

<p>Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK</p><p>The UK tax authorities have announced they will no longer cut off parents’ child benefit payments after a new crackdown on overseas fraud backfired due to incomplete Home Office travel data.</p><p>The flawed data led to HMRC suspending 23,500 payments in recent weeks, including for many families who had simply gone on holiday without the Home Office recording their return.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/29/hmrc-pauses-child-benefit-crackdown-after-23500-families-caught-up-in-data-error">Continue reading...</a>