UK's HM Revenue & Customs resumes anti-fraud checks on child benefit recipients
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UK's HM Revenue & Customs resumed an anti‑fraud scheme that uses Home Office travel records to suspend child benefit payments, after the system previously caused incorrect stoppages affecting about 13,800 households.
Why it matters
Families who travel abroad now face a renewed risk that HM Revenue & Customs will halt their child benefit where travel data shows departures without recorded returns. Households must be prepared to produce documentary proof of return travel to challenge or avoid payment suspensions.
Implications
- • Parents and guardians claiming the UK's child benefit payments must retain and be ready to submit documentary proof of travel and return (for example boarding passes, passport stamps, or changed itineraries) when HM Revenue & Customs queries their records, or face suspension of payments.
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