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Child Benefit

Asked by Jake RichardsLabourTreasuryTabled Answered 30 January 2025UIN 26121

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse would be to not claim back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.

Answered by James Murray

I refer the hon member to the answer given on 24 January to UIN 25010 regarding estimated costs of not claiming back Child Benefit overpayments.

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