Home Office data in HMRC benefit fraud trial wrong in 46% of cases

Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UKHome Office travel records used in a trial of a controversial anti-fraud crackdown under which thousands of parents lost their child benefit were so flawed that almost half of the families initially flagged as having emigrated were still living in the UK, it has emerged.The benefit is not payable if the claimant is abroad for more than eight weeks unless there are exceptional circumsta