Under current proposals, from January 2013 a family with a single earner on more than £42,475 would lose their child benefit, although a couple who each earn slightly below this amount, totalling as much as £80,000, would keep the benefit.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Clegg said: "What you do when you create these cut-offs is you create some sort of anomalies.
"There’s a specific issue about how you administer the removal of child benefit from upper-rate earners and we’ve always said we will look at exactly the way that is administered."
The changes, in their current form, would affect around 15 per cent of UK families, with parents set to lose £1,055 a year if they have one child.
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