Question follow-through · 25009
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year since the payment was made.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year since the payment was made.
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
Entitlement to Child Benefit continues for eight weeks after the date of a child’s death. This recognises that the period following such a traumatic event is particularly difficult and avoids causing additional distress from the immediate removal of finan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Child Benefit
23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.
Child Benefit
23 Jan 2025 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse would be to not claim back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.