Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

TFC or UC?

1 reply

lonelymumm · 28/01/2021 09:43

Hello, we have been claiming Uc since lockdown due to partner losing his job and me on mat leave. We are now both back in full time work and I want the payments to stop as I feel awful claiming when we no longer need it. I would then just apply for tax free childcare instead which would be much less but still extremely helpful to us. My question is, because we had an advance payment of £1k in March 2020 , we are still paying that back £100 a month until March 2021. I'm wondering if I ask them to stop payments due to applying for tfc instead, would we still be expected to pay back the £200 we owe? Only because we would struggle to come up with that money and I'm wondering if it's worth just staying on UC until it's fully paid off and then applying for TFC after March. 🙂 any advice appreciated

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
lonelymumm · 28/01/2021 09:55

Found the answer to my question

'If you no longer get Universal Credit, repayments will be taken by other means, such as other benefit payments, your wages or through a debt collection agency'

Suppose I may aswell continue claiming for the next 2 months.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.