Question follow-through · 26120
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 after the upfront payment.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 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 after the upfront payment.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon member to the answer given on 23 January to UIN 25009 regarding the policy on Child Benefit overpayments.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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