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

  • 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.

Guidance and regulation

News and communications

Research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations