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child benefit

British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She says that without it - and UK-administered child benefit - her family would be "really struggling".

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

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

There is often a misconception that the two-child limit affects the payment of child benefit, because it is called the two-child benefit cap.

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

Families say they felt they were treated like criminals when child benefit payments were wrongly stopped after going on holiday abroad due to errors.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2025

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