Half a million people have been affected by delays to child benefit payments. Around 30% of child benefit payments scheduled for Monday were not made – equating to around 500,000 people being affected. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said it has fixed the problem and those affected will be paid on Wednesday morning.
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00:00 Hello, my name is Greg Wright, I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
00:06 Here are your business headlines for this morning.
00:09 Half a million people have been affected by delays to child benefit payments.
00:14 Around 30% of child benefit payments scheduled for Monday were not made,
00:19 which equates to around 500,000 people being affected.
00:23 HM Revenue and Customs said it has fixed the problem and those affected will be paid on Wednesday morning.
00:31 The spokesperson said, "We are very sorry that some customers did not receive their scheduled child benefit payments as expected,
00:38 and we understand the concern and difficulty this may have caused.
00:42 We have now fixed the problem and are putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again."
00:48 But an update about an issue affecting many consumers. Half a million people were affected by delays to child benefit payments.
00:57 My name is Greg Wright and I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.