About three years ago my husband was earning £51k and part-way through the financial year he took a job on that paid just over £61k.
HMRC demanded back all of the child benefit that had been paid. Seems very unfair seeing as we didn't know this new job was coming; it should be taken into account that for some of the year we only would have had to declare we were only £1000 over.
I cancelled the child benefit as soon as he took the new job but was a shock that the old job was irrelevant to the child benefit part of the SA.
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About three years ago my husband was earning £51k and part-way through the financial year he took a job on that paid just over £61k.
HMRC demanded back all of the child benefit that had been paid. Seems very unfair seeing as we didn't know this new job was coming; it should be taken into account that for some of the year we only would have had to declare we were only £1000 over.
I cancelled the child benefit as soon as he took the new job but was a shock that the old job was irrelevant to the child benefit part of the SA.