Childcare voucher and switching childminder

[Love321you]

Hi,

My company is rubbish at providing childcare vouchers and stuff so I just wanted to confirm something that I have just been told.
I have been using childcare vouchers to pay my boy's childminder but I am going to send him to a nursery from next month. My company said they can't continue paying childcare vouchers if I switch to a different childcare provider and I have to switch to Tax Free? Is this correct? This also means my hubby has to switch as well. I thought I can continue using vouchers as long as I joined the scheme before 4th Oct?

Can someone give me some help here?

The scheme is closed to new parents not new providers but if you change jobs you can't take the scheme with you. As long as you are paying in the minimum required and staying in the same job its fine....your company is not the one to pay the provider ring your voucher company and change the payee through them who you use is nothing to do with your employer.

Jannier is correct. Your employer doesn’t even have to know who your childcare provider is. They put credit into the voucher account and you cofidentially manage payments out of the account.

Contact the voucher company for support. You are not obligated to tell your boss that you’re using the scheme for childcare. My place of work never knew I was dependent upon the scheme for my childcare. It saved me the money and time of finding another childcare provider.