Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit to only one parent?
Dear HM Revenue and Customs,
Can you please give the relevant legislation/acts of parliament as well as all regulations etc. that concern the eligibility for the child parts of all benefits, paid by the HMRC, since the Human Rights Act 1998, or possibly before?
And could you please state whether each bit of the legislation/act's etc. is either primary legislation, secondary legislation, or rules and regulations? Or amending a previous Act of Parliament via Statutory Instrument? And who made/who was responsible for each decision?
Could you also please give an official comment, as to why only one parent benefits from this? And also why it gets paid to people emigrating to the UK, whose child may not even be in the country?
Yours faithfully,
Jimmy
Our ref: FOI2019/01416
Dear Jimmy,
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Dear Jimmy,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 17th
June.
Yours sincerely,
HMRC Freedom of Information Team
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