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HMRC has stopped people's benefits - over ONE-DAY trips abroad. HMRC has wrongly halted Child Benefit payments for over 23,000 benefits claimants, according to an expose in the Guardian.

One mother, Cerys, had her child benefit frozen after a one-day trip to the Netherlands and is now required to provide extensive documentation to prove her return.

“It does feel like you are being punished for going away,” said Cerys, a music teacher. She took her three children on a one-day trip to Amsterdam from John Lennon airport in Liverpool.

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She told the newspaper on Tuesday, October 28, that the sole purpose of the trip was"familiarising two of them, who have been diagnosed with autism, with fly

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