Dad devastated by £5,000 bill for child benefit error is told he can't appeal

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The Mirror.Worried, Andrew called HMRC that day and cancelled his child benefit payments.It later appeared that the couple had fallen into the High Income Child Benefit Charge trap.HMRC told the couple that the charge was because he had earned over £50,000 a year since 2017.The rules state that this means he had to pay them back.Andrew commented: “They said they warned us about this in a leaflet handed to us inside a goodie bag at the hospital when my daughter was born in 2016.”Until 2013, child benefit could be claimed by all parents in England regardless of their earnings.But, in 2013, the government changed the rules to state that anyone earning more than £50,001 a year would have to pay back 1% of every £100 they earned in the form of a.