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childcare vouchers
if you've ended up with an excess of childcare voucher - can you get this refunded?
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Annual review confusion- am I being stupid?
Background is. Ex hb has historically earned between £500-550 per week in income and has paid child support based on this amount via a DEO. As far as I know the annual review is calculated at the recorded weekly earning for the previous financial year. At my annual review for 2024 his payments were recalculated based his…
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Child Maintenance Payments
I’m bamboozled and keep finding conflicting information so hoping someone can confirm my question(s). I have an 18 year old son that is about to leave College and begin studying at University in September. He will no longer be living at home with Mum. I make my payment on the 27th of each month. Do I need to continue…
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Tax Free Childcare + 15 hours free
Hello I currently earning over £100k a year. I am putting a % away into a pension via my employer - a company pension plan by aviva (a% my contributions plus 3% my employers contributions.) It is a salary sacrifice arrangement ie not the net relief at source arrangement. I am then putting some money away per month into a…
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How long for tax free child account approval
Hi, I’ve applied for tax free child care and 15h free on gov website. I never had a child’s tax account before. It’s been 2 weeks and it still hasn’t been approved. Does anyone know how long it takes? also, how do they check the annual salary? Is it based on last year? I’ve never applied because I earned over 100k and…
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25% bonkers ruling
Anyone else get done over every year by this? It's not the ruling itself, it's that they only apply it when it suits them. So annual review should be the latest figure they have from HMRC. Every year they give me the wrong calculation as they don't include the P11D figure. Every year I tell them that they should and every…
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Can I receive Child Maintenance for university student
My daughter is about to start her final year of A-levels and is planning on going to a local university so she can live at home (she needs extra support she is autistic). She may need to do a foundation year at university before starting her degree. As I understand it child maintenance is not paid for students studying for…
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Voluntary Child Maintenance for a School Leaver
Not sure this is the right place to ask this question but if not and someone could point me in the right direction it would help. My son has been separated from his ex partner for 15 years and has been paying an agreed voluntary maintenance for that length of time. My grandson was 16 in November 2023, hasn't been to school…
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Redundancy and Childcare Discount
Hi All, I am being made redundant. My partner and I have two children at childcare in Northern Ireland, we currently receive the 20% discount. When I lose my job do I also lose the discount? Thanks in advance.
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child maintenance - paying lump sum in advance
Hello all, I'm in the middle of agreeing child maintenance payments with my ex. She is asking if I will pay a lump sum upfront, this would cover all payments for the next 5 years and then our child will be adult. I'm happy to pay what is required every month, but is it a good idea to just pay it all in one go like that?…
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Evidence for Child Maintenance tribunal
I am in dispute over the number of days my son stays with his dad. He doesn't stay over at all but his dad claims he stays 2 nights a week. A court order was made when our son was 14, an age where really he can decide where he wants to stay. He does see his dad but feels uncomfortable staying over. I have provided CMS with…
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Changing Child Maintenance Payments
Me and the ex wife came to an agreement we would use the child maintenance figure from the government website, I pay her based on me having the children 2 nights a week. Is it reasonable for me to change the amount on a month to month basis. As I am having them half the summer holidays (50/50 care), so surely I should pay…
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Abusive ex-husband and bullying court order
After 11 years of emotional, verbal and financial abuse I fled the family home in Surrey with 2 young children. My husband was arrested and released on 3 months bail. I am now living with parents in Oxfordshire and have transferred my eldest child into a local primary school. I have been issued a without notice child…
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When exactly does my quarterly entitlement to Tax Free Childcare refresh?
Simple question
but I can’t find the answer anywhere. Is there a set date on which my quarterly
entitlement to Tax Free Childcare refreshes? If so, how can I find out when it
is? Obviously I realise that it’s roughly once every three months, but it’d be
helpful if I could diarise the precise date.
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Child Maintenance
My daughter is 18 and has just finished her A levels and has left college. When would I stop my child maintenance payments? I’ve read that’s university doesn’t count as full time education and that I can stop payments on 31st August?
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Child Maintenance Payments
My daughter was married to an abusive man that continues to harass her whenever possible. They have an 11 year old son for which he pays child maintenance. The child will shortly go into hospital for a month. Shortly after his release he is will go on holiday for three weeks with his mother. The ex husband says that he…
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Notional Charge on Assets
Hello All, I am a Paying Parent who recently opted out of a Consent Order to open a case with the CMS. I have a question about the guidelines or rules about how the CMS assesses a notional charge on assets because I find it pretty confusing. My understanding is that any asset which appears with HMRC such as rental income…
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Changing 15hrs code to 30hrs code
Hi, does anyone know the process for transitioning from a 15hrs funded childcare code to 30hrs code on your child turning 3? Our daughter will be 3 in August. We are currently on tax free childcare and 15 funded hours. As her nursery is also closing in August we’re having to look for a new place. All the nursery options…
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Mature Student - 15 free childcare hours (or not)
Hi there, I can’t be the only person who is struggling with this… I am going to be a mature student starting a PGCE to become a teacher in September. I’ve been working full time for the last 14 years (paying tax). I am entitled to a childcare grant £3,600 for the year but my childcare fees monthly are £1100. So this grant…
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Child care 15 hours
I have just started the hunt for a nursery for my child. I have found that most the nurseries that I have contacted that accept the free 15 hours say that the 15 hours only counts as 1 full day care 7:30-5:30 which is 10 hrs is this right? I haven't found a nursery that carries the other 5 hrs over to a second day
