{"id":9013,"date":"2023-09-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-25863"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"back-to-school-help-with-childcare-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/back-to-school-help-with-childcare-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school \u2013 help with childcare costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As children return to school after the summer break, HMRC is reminding parents that they may be eligible to use the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme to help pay for any approved childcare.<\/p>\n<p>The TFC scheme can help parents of children aged up to 11 years old (17 for those with certain disabilities). The TFC scheme helps support working families with their childcare costs. There are many registered childcare providers including childminders, nurseries, breakfast and after school clubs and approved play schemes signed up across the UK. Parents can pay into their account regularly and save up their TFC allowance to use during school holidays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TFC scheme provides for a government top-up of&nbsp;parental contributions. For every &pound;8 contributed by parents an additional &pound;2 top up payment will be funded by Government up to a maximum total of &pound;10,000 per child per year. This will give parents an annual savings of up to &pound;2,000 per child (and up to &pound;4,000 for disabled children until the age of 17) in childcare costs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TFC scheme is open to all qualifying parents including the self-employed and those on a minimum wage. The scheme is also available to parents on paid sick leave as well as those on paid and unpaid statutory maternity, paternity and adoption leave. In order to be eligible to use the scheme parents will have to be in work at least 16 hours per week and earn at least the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage. If either parent earns more than &pound;100,000, both parents are unable to use the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC&rsquo;s Director General for Customer Services, said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&lsquo;<\/em><em>Starting back to school and arranging childcare for the term ahead can be costly for working families. Tax-Free Childcare offers financial help so families can save on the cost of childcare. Search Tax-Free Childcare on GOV.UK and sign up online today.<\/em><em>&rsquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<div style='font-size:smaller' class='im_source'>Source: HM Revenue &#038; Customs   Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As children return to school after the summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Back to school \u2013 help with childcare costs - One Accounting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As children return to school after the summer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oneaccounting.co.uk\/back-to-school-help-with-childcare-costs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Back to school \u2013 help with childcare costs - 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