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If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.
Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.
What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
Find out if you're eligible for free childcare for 2 to 4 year olds if you live in England - 2 year olds can get 15 hours per week, 3 to 4 year olds 30 hours.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, tax credits, Learner Support.
Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.
How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
Find out when your Child Benefit payments are due, and payment dates for bank holidays.
High Income Child Benefit Charge - check if you're affected, how and when to pay this tax charge, opt out and restart Child Benefit payments.
Help for children under 16 with disabilities - DLA rate, eligibility, how to apply, claim form.
Estimate the Child Benefit you've received and your High Income Child Benefit tax charge
Sure Start Maternity Grant is a £500 payment to help with the costs of a new baby: what you'll get, eligibility and how to apply (claim form SF100).
Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents
How to apply for Tax-Free Childcare.
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £60,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
Child Benefit for 16 to 19 year olds - when payments stop or continue, approved education or training, extensions.
Maternity Allowance is paid to pregnant women who do not get Statutory Maternity Pay - rate, eligibility, apply, form MA1
How to apply and get a code for free childcare for your child aged 9 months to 4-years old if you’re working.
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