{"id":117,"date":"2022-02-28T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:04:44","slug":"tax-free-childcare-childcare-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"Tax Free Childcare &#038; Childcare Vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tax Free Childcare and Childcare Vouchers<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tax Free Childcare<\/strong><\/span> is an online payment account topped up by the Government which parents use solely to pay<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-234 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image35-256x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image35-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image35.png 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/> their childcare costs.\u00a0 For every \u00a38.00 that families pay in, the Government will make a top up payment of \u00a32.00 up to a maximum of \u00a32000 per child per year (or \u00a34000 for disabled children).\u00a0 It is available for children under 12 years old (under 17 years for disabled children) and can be used to contribute towards your Nursery fees.\u00a0\u00a0 To be eligible parents must be in work (including self-employment) and you can get tax free childcare at the same time as 30 hours free childcare if you are eligible for both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Check your eligibility and apply on line <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/get-tax-free-childcare\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Childcare Vouchers<\/strong><\/span> are an employee benefit for eligible working parents that is being phased out but if you are already registered with one of these Schemes please contact <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"mailto:askthurgolandchildcare@yahoo.co.uk\"><strong>Jillian<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>on \u00a0to check if we are currently registered with your Scheme and can accept payment via this method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Please note that it can take up to 5 days for monies from both Tax-Free Childcare and Childcare Vouchers to clear into our bank account after you have requested the vouchers so bear this in mind to ensure that your Nursery fees are paid by the 1st of the month.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax Free Childcare and Childcare Vouchers Tax Free Childcare is an online payment account topped up by the Government which parents use solely to pay their childcare costs.\u00a0 For every \u00a38.00 that families pay in, the Government will make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/970"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thurgolandchildcare.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}