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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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"I'm hopeful the chancellor will do the right thing on child benefit."

From BBC • Nov. 26, 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

She told the BBC's Money Box programme that about 18 months after the trip she received a letter saying the child benefit for her son had been stopped.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

It added that child benefit was paid to more than 6.9 million families, supporting 11.9 million children, and that those receiving letters accounted for 0.34% of all those claiming the benefit.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

Hundreds of families have had their child benefit payments stopped because they returned to Northern Ireland via Dublin airport.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

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