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Tax-free Childcare Scheme and Childcare Vouchers 

The childcare voucher scheme is no longer available to new applicants.

The Government closed childcare voucher schemes to new entrants with effect from 4th October 2018 and introduced the (TFC) scheme. TFC is now the only scheme open to new applicants. This provides parents with children under the age of 12 up to £2,000 a year per child to help cover childcare costs. For every £8 a parent pays in, the Government will pay in an extra £2.

Parents can open an online account through the government website GOV.UK, which you can use to pay for childcare from a registered provider. To qualify, parents will have to be in work, and each expecting to earn at least £120 a week and not more than £100,000 per annum.

Parents

Parents who are already in the University’s childcare voucher scheme will be able to continue until the September following your child's 15th birthday, or for as long as the University provides it and you remain eligible. You will not see any changes and you will continue to pay for and receive your vouchers in the normal way. For further information and frequently asked questions, please refer to our Childcare Voucher Scheme Information Sheet.

You can switch to TFC at any time, but please note that you cannot be in both TFC and the University childcare voucher scheme at the same time. Once you have joined TFC, you cannot switch back to the childcare voucher scheme. If you successfully register for TFC you must inform Human Resources within 90 days and then your childcare vouchers will stop.

Child tax credit

Each working family situation is unique, therefore you should always take advice regarding Child Tax Credits and childcare vouchers. Tax credit information is available from HMRC .