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Childminding UK’s Sustainability report 2023/24, highlights how receiving funding in lump sums can affect Universal Credit payments by increasing the amount a childminder appears to earn during a reporting window to above the maximum income threshold. In some cases, this means they miss out on the benefit the months they receive funding or until their funding runs out.
One childminder explained, ‘I am extremely worried. I am a single parent minder with two assistants. I have just moved from Tax Credits to Universal Credit. Our funding is paid in two lump sums per term, rather than monthly. Funded months will wipe out my UC completely, even though the funding covers just two-three months of expenditure.’
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