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Mum wins back £1,600 a year from HMRC after falling into child benefit trap 40 years ago
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dailyrecord.co.ukchild benefit trap decades ago. Ed Smith and his wife, a part time stylist, claimed child benefit for their son over 12 years in the 1970s and would collect their payments weekly from their local Post Office.
But what they didn't realise was that forty years later, they would discover a massive deficit in their state pension. Ed, who is now 73, explained that their son was born in the mid-1970s and his wife used to collect the child benefit in person over the counter at the Post Office in Bury St Edmunds, reports the Mirror.One day on collecting her payments, she was told that the branch was closing.
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