Financial help if you have children

Financial support for childcare, when you're having a baby or if you're studying. Child benefit, tax credits.

Services

  • 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.

  • Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.

  • Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.

  • High Income Child Benefit Charge - check if you're affected, how and when to pay this tax charge, opt out, restart Child Benefit payments or tell HMRC about a change in your circumstances.

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