Child Benefit claimants could claim compensation from HMRC after payment delay
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Earlier this month, 557,000 people were not paid their Child Benefit when it was due on Monday, June 3 and after hours of confusion, the tax office confirmed that an IT error had caused a delay in around 30% of payments