Innocent families were deprived of a vital benefit because they had taken different routes to exit and re-enter the country, changed their travel plans, or had flights cancelled. Of 23,500 affected families, only around 500 have had their benefits reinstated.
Sharing passenger records between agencies to determine benefits is another example of function creep. The collection and sharing of airline data, which once purportedly prevented terrorism, is now being used to decide whether children in the UK receive their government allowance
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