File photo dated 11/11/04 of an adult playing with a child at a nursery. A childcare tax break for working parents will be more generous than expected and expanded to older children more quickly, the Government announced ahead of the Budget. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday March 18, 2014. The new scheme - due to come into force from the autumn of 2015 - will be worth up to ?2,000 per child, compared with the ?1,200 originally proposed. See PA story POLITICS Budget. Photo credit should read: Edmond Terakopian/PA Wire
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Parents were overcharged by around £7.6 million in child maintenance last year because of faulty Government assessments of their cases, a public spending watchdog said as it declined to fully sign off the scheme's accounts.
Official errors also accounted for £6.1 million in underpayments, the National Audit Office estimated.
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