questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help prevent people from fraudulently claiming child benefit.
answerText: HMRC estimated the 2023-24 Child Benefit Error and Fraud (E&amp;F) rate to be 1.6% (£200m) of total Child Benefit expenditure.Child Benefit has strong pre-award controls. The emphasis of HMRC’s compliance strategy remains on unreported changes in circumst...
heading: Child Benefit: Fraud