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Financial help if you have children

Financial support for childcare, when you're having a baby or if you're studying. Child benefit, tax credits.

Services

  • What Tax-Free Childcare is, who can get it and how to apply.

  • Child Benefit for 16 to 19 year olds - when payments stop or continue, approved education or training, extensions.

  • Child Benefit - child benefit rates, eligibility, how to claim, child benefit claim form CH2.

  • 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.

  • 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).

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