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HMRC U-turn after families wrongly stripped of Child Benefit

HMRC said they will now no longer automatically stop payments before first contacting parents

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HMRC ‘urgently reviewing’ flawed benefit crackdown as families impacted across the UK

At the weekend, it emerged that about 350 families in Northern Ireland had been wrongly caught up in the crackdown

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HMRC crackdown wrongly targets Northern Irish families using Dublin Airport

“A fair degree of distress being caused to families who have done nothing wrong”

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'I’d be in floods of tears': Why Northern Ireland still has no mother-and-baby unit

“That really scared me. The idea of not being able to see her was the worst part”

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