General · 9 November 2025
23,500 Families Hit By Shocking Child Benefit Freeze—Could Your Holiday Cost You Thousands?
HM Revenue and Customs is reviewing decisions to suspend child benefit payments to 23,500 people after flawed travel data wrongly identified families as having emigrated. The error affected families who had taken short holidays abroad, with the Home Office failing to record their return journeys. HMRC has apologised and changed its process to now check with recipients before suspending payments, giving them one month to respond rather than automatically stopping benefits.
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