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A Child Benefit flaw means families are having payments stopped by HMRC. Hundreds of families have had their child benefit payments stopped because they returned to Northern Ireland via Dublin airport.

It follows the introduction of a new Labour Party government anti-fraud system designed to track those who leave the country but do not come back after eight weeks, raising a red flag at HMRC for possible emigration.

Sinn Féin MP Dáire Hughes, who is representing 14 of the families affected, called the system "flawed". HMRC have apologised for the mistake and said they were "working at pace" to reinstate claims so families are "not left out of pocket".

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Hughes, who is the MP for Newry and Armagh, to

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