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flag Over 17,000 UK families wrongly lost child benefit in late 2025 due to a flawed HMRC system, now being fixed.

flag Over 17,000 UK families had their child benefit wrongly stopped in late 2025 due to a technical flaw in HMRC’s fraud prevention system that removed a key PAYE data check, leading to incorrect flags based on travel data. flag The error, identified in mid-October, disproportionately affected Northern Ireland residents and caused widespread disruption. flag By early 2026, HMRC had reinstated payments for nearly 17,100 cases, confirmed 1,109 as non-compliant, and left about 5,600 under review. flag The department has since paused the rollout, added safeguards, and launched a fraud prevention center amid a separate £56.7 million PAYE phishing scam.

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