Child Benefit: Fraud
Commons · Question 105331 · Tabled 13 Jan 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 19 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 103948 on Child Benefit: Fraud, if she will make an estimate of the cost to her Department of time spent reviewing old cases.
Answer
Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 19 Jan 2026
The projected savings for the residency compliance work are a component of a wider measure announced at Autumn Budget 24 and forms part of the overall forecast for Child Benefit expenditure. The estimate of £350 million over five years for the total savin...