'HMRC stopped my child benefit after going on holiday'
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BBC Ellen and Kevin Edwards with their son
Families say they felt they were treated like criminals when child benefit payments were wrongly stopped after going on holiday abroad due to errors. Ellen and Kevin Edwards, from Walsall Wood, in the West Midlands, are among more than 23,000 families targeted since a government crackdown in September. Their payments were stopped last month after being told their son had not returned from a holiday. That was despite his passport being stamped on leaving Cyprus and scanned on return to Britain.
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