Question follow-through · 10750

Child Benefit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance her Department provides for people who believe they have not been paid the correct child benefits.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
25 Jun 2026
Answer
25 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance her Department provides for people who believe they have not been paid the correct child benefits.

  2. 25 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    HMRC administers Child Benefit and regularly undertakes communications campaigns in press and social media to encourage people to claim. Last year, over 500,000 flyers were issued to new parents with a QR code that takes customers straight to the Child Be...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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