By bizn_fun 
In September, the government began a crackdown on child benefit fraud which it believes could save £350m over five years.
The new system allows HMRC records to be compared with Home Office international travel data, and the tax authority had used this data to stop payments to thousands of families.
But it is now reviewing all of the cases following a growing number of complaints from people affected who said they had been on holiday, and had returned to the UK after a short time.
Eve Craven went on a five-day break with her son to New York. She told the BBC’s Money Box programme that about 18 months after the trip she received a letter saying the child benefit for her son had been stopped.
The letter cited her trip to the US, saying it had no record of her return.
“It gave me a month basically to give them all the requested information to prove that I’d come back to the UK,” she said.
“It’s just a very big ask for something that they’ve messed up on, and they should have been able to sort out themselves.”
Eve’s child benefit has now been reinstated with missing payments backdated.