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child benefit

British

noun

(in Britain, Canada and New Zealand) a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age

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Despite the name, it does not affect child benefit - but relates to tax credits and universal credit payments if you have or had a third or subsequent child born after 6 April 2017.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

The cap does not affect child benefit, which is paid to families where the highest-earning parent earns less than £80,000.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

This policy is specifically directed at universal credit and tax credits, not child benefit.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

The UK's tax body is reviewing its decisions to strip child benefit from about 23,500 claimants after it used travel data to conclude they had left the country permanently.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

Five months later, their child benefit payments were suspended and they received a letter to that effect, but even that contained errors, Mrs Edwards said.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

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