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The Government has confirmed that it is reviewing its decision to suspend around 23,500 Child Benefit claims after some claimants reported that their payments were incorrectly stopped.

Child Benefit is normally stopped if you go on holiday for more than eight weeks - and as part of a new pilot scheme to tackle fraud, HMRC used travel data to decide whether someone had left the country permanently.

However, some people were incorrectly identified as not having returned from trips abroad, reports the Mirror .

The tax office has apologised “to those whose payments have been suspended incorrectly,” and says it aims to complete its review by the end of next week - reinstating claims and making back payments where necessary.

The pilot scheme is understood to have saved HM

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