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If you're a parent registered for Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare if you're working, sign in to pay into your account, reconfirm your eligibility, update your details.
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.
Help with the cost of paying for approved childcare - Tax-Free Childcare, 15 and 30 hours childcare, childcare vouchers, Learner Support.
Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.
High Income Child Benefit Charge - check if you're affected, how and when to pay this tax charge, opt out and restart Child Benefit payments.
Estimate the Child Benefit you've received and your High Income Child Benefit tax charge
Help for children under 16 with disabilities - DLA rate, eligibility, how to apply, claim form.
Sure Start Maternity Grant is a £500 payment to help with the costs of a new baby: what you'll get, eligibility and how to apply (claim form SF100).
How to apply for Tax-Free Childcare.
Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents
Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £60,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
Child Benefit for 16 to 19 year olds - when payments stop or continue, approved education or training, extensions.
See how the Child Maintenance Service works out maintenance and the rates they use
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
Child Tax Credits if you're responsible for one child or more - how much you get, eligibility, claim tax credits.
Maternity Allowance is paid to pregnant women who do not get Statutory Maternity Pay - rate, eligibility, apply, form MA1
Disabled Facilities Grants help towards the costs of making changes to your home so you can continue to live there
Find out when your Child Benefit payments are due, and payment dates for bank holidays.
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