MPs ask HMRC to explain child benefit error that froze payments to parents
The Guardian – World —
Letter demands answers after 23,500 families wrongly suspected of fraud when data showed they had left UKMPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments were stopped to 23,500 families as part of an anti-fraud crackdown.Meg Hillier, a Labour MP and chair of the House of Commons Treasury select committee, has written to the permanent secretary of HMRC asking who made the decisions, why they were made and whether compensation would be offered to the victims. Continue reading...