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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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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

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

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

Eve's child benefit has now been reinstated with missing payments backdated.

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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