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Will the government accept calls for an urgent independent inquiry after thousands of families were wrongly stripped of child benefit due to flawed Home Office information?

Here’s The Guardian:

“Andrew Snowden, the Conservative MP for Fylde and the party’s assistant whip, said the government “must take immediate and transparent action” to address the failures of the anti-fraud benefits crackdown.

““Thousands of families have had essential child benefit payments wrongly suspended because of unreliable or incomplete data,” he said.

“Flawed Home Office travel data… claimed to show parents going on holidays and not returning.

“Snowden called for “a full, independent review of how this system was authorised, including how such unreliable travel data was used to make decisions on family benefits”. He said the findings must be published in full.”

I have already published my own analysis of how 23,500 families were wrongly stripped of child benefit, here.

An independent inquiry could happen – although it is not guaranteed…

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