HMRC took 'cavalier' approach to stopping child benefit, MPs say
Source: BBC
The UK tax office took a "cavalier" approach to child benefit checks when it decided to strip payments from thousands of claimants after wrongly assuming they had permanently relocated out of the UK, a group of MPs have said.Payments stopped when HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ceased cross-checking travel records with claimants' tax data to prove they were in the UK. Treasury Select Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier…
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