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HMRC deemed risk ‘remote’ before wrongly cutting child benefit for thousands

This was despite evidence from a pilot of the scheme showing travel data was wrong in 46% of cases

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'Deeply troubling': 63% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown

The error rate in the wider roll out of the scheme (63%) is significantly higher than during the pilot (46%)

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NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal

“It clearly shows there are hugely significant issues that many people will have suspected for some time"

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