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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
....there was NO child benefit for most of the time my daughter was growing up...
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You must be really old because child benefit/family allowance/child tax allowances/family income supplement etc has been around in one form or another since 1909 (also between 1798 and 1805 but I know you're not that old

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Have a read of this interested page explaining where it all started
Where it all started « Policy « Child Benefit