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HMRC has suspended payments for 23,500 households with claims being reviewed. HMRC and the Labour Party government are reviewing ithe decisions to strip child benefit from about 23,500 claimants.

The suspensions of payments came after it used travel data to conclude they had left the country permanently. Child Benefit typically runs out after eight weeks living outside the UK.

But many people affected complained that HMRC had stopped their money after they went on holiday for just a short time. HMRC is now reviewing all of the cases following a growing number of complaints from people affected who said they had been on holiday.

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