HMRC is urging parents who claimed child benefit before 2000 to check if they are eligible to increase their state pension. Some parents...

HMRC is urging nearly a million parents with 16 to 19 year old children in education that they must renew child benefit claims urgently...

Since 1977, families claiming Child Benefit had to fill out a paper form, post it, and wait as long as 16 weeks for their first payment....