Skip to main content
  1. Home
Financial help if you have children

Services

60 services

60 services sorted by Most viewed
  • Child Benefit payment dates

    Find out when your Child Benefit payments are due, and payment dates for bank holidays.

  • Maternity Allowance

    Maternity Allowance is paid to pregnant women who do not get Statutory Maternity Pay - rate, eligibility, apply, form MA1

  • Maternity pay and leave

    Your Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Leave - what you get, how to claim, maternity rights and extra help

  • Disabled Facilities Grants

    Disabled Facilities Grants help towards the costs of making changes to your home so you can continue to live there

  • Paternity pay and leave

    Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.

  • Report changes that affect your tax credits

    Why tax credits go up, down or stop - changes to your family or work life you need to report such as a change of address.

  • Tax credits overpayments

    Tax credit overpayments - repaying tax credits, repayment methods, what to do if you cannot repay

  • Shared Parental Leave and Pay

    You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and spli…

  • Get childcare: step by step

    How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.

    • From: HM Revenue & Customs and 1 others
  • Junior Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)

    How to open a Junior ISA for your child - including managing and adding money to an account.

  • Childcare Grant

    Childcare Grants for full-time students in higher education - grants, CCG1, CCG2 forms, how to apply, eligibility

  • How tax credits and other benefits affect each other

    How tax credits affect your benefits including Child Benefit and Housing Benefit

  • Tax credits: your payment dates

    Your tax credit payments - find out when they're due and early payment dates for bank holidays

  • Healthy Start

    Healthy Start is an NHS scheme that helps women who are pregnant or have young children and are receiving benefits, buy foods such as milk or fruit.

  • How to renew tax credits

    How to renew your tax credits claim, including the application deadline, renewal pack and how long it takes

  • Help if you have a disabled child

    Your rights and the support you can get if you have a disabled child, including childcare, car costs, house adaptations and education

  • Parents' Learning Allowance

    Parents' Learning Allowance for full-time students with children - funding, apply, eligibility.

  • Child Benefit if you move to the UK

    Child Benefit if you've moved to the UK from abroad - who qualifies and which countries have an agreement with the UK

  • Guardian's Allowance

    Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.

  • Tax credits if you have a baby

    Tax credits when you have a baby - what money you can get, how and when to apply for tax credits