Nursery World - HMRC has paid out £40,000 in compensation to Tax-Free Childcare parents

Nearly £40,000 has been paid in Tax-Free Childcare compensation to parents for inconvenience and expenses incurred as a result of the scheme.

A further £966,66 has been paid to parents in lieu of Tax-Free Childcare payments to date.

The sums were revealed by the chief secretary to the Treasury Elizabeth Truss in response to a parliamentary question tabled this week by the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow Rushanara Ali about how much compensation the Government has paid out as a result of problems with the HMRC Childcare Service website.

In August, the Government announced that parents who had been unable to access Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) because of technical issues with the Childcare Service website, which parents must use for TFC and the 30 hours, could apply for compensation.

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