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Guidance

Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare WTC5

Guidance explaining help with the costs of childcare for parents.

Updates to this page

From:
HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
2 April 2014
Last updated:
23 March 2023
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  1. Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare (WTC5) for 2023 to 2024 has been added.

  2. Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare (WTC5) for 2022 to 2023 has been added.

  3. Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare (WTC5) for 2021 to 2022 has been added.

  4. Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare (WTC5) for 2020 to 2021 has been added.

  5. Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare (WTC5) for 2019 to 2020 has been added.

  6. The 2018 to 2019 version of the WTC5 Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare, has been added.

  7. This guidance has been updated to reflect changes effective from 6 April 2017, and a Welsh language translation added.

  8. WTC5 has been updated to reflect new tax year changes

  9. New information available for the 2016 to 2017 tax year.

  10. The 2015 to 2016 form has been added to this page.

  11. First published.

This publication was withdrawn on

This page has been withdrawn as Child Tax Credits and Working Tax Credits are no longer available for new claims.

Tax credits ended on 5 April 2025 

If you previously received tax credits you may need to let HMRC know about changes that affect your tax credits.

Documents

Working Tax Credit: help with the costs of childcare WTC5

Ref: WTC5

PDF, 3.09 MB, 17 pages

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If you work, are responsible for a child or children and pay for childcare you may be able to get extra help with the costs. This is through the childcare element of Working Tax Credit.

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