Nursery World - Tax-Free Childcare extended to more parents, but some still unable to sign up

As Tax-Free Childcare opens to children under the age of nine, parents are still reporting difficulties registering for the scheme or reconfirming their eligibility.

As of yesterday, Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) opened to parents whose youngest child is under nine, or turned nine on 15 January.

Previous to this, only parents of children aged six and under have benefitted from the scheme, which went live last April.

TFC will open to all remaining eligible families with children under the age of 12, or under 17 for disabled children, on 14 February – slightly earlier than previously stated.

In November, HMRC announced that full rollout of TFC had been pushed back to March 2018. It is thought the delay was to enable further improvements to be made to the HMRC Childcare Service website, which has suffered from numerous technical glitches.

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