Tax free childcare- one working parent and one in education. Eligibility?

[Roxyrocks]

Hi all,

I'm currently looking at returning to university to join a full time course where I would qualify as a healthcare professional.

I've been looking into finances and have read online that both parents need to be earning a certain amount unless just one parent qualifies?

Does anyone know what qualifies the one parent?

My husband currently earns £50k per year but with a mortgage and 2 children in childcare things would be incredibly tight if we no longer qualified for the tax free childcare until the free hours kicked in.

Thanks

No you won't be eligible, there is a petition currently to address this as its wildly unfair.

Do you happen to have the link for the petition? I'd definitely like to sign it!

I don't think allowed to link them on here, but if you Google '30 hours for healthcare students' there's a few :)

Have you checked whether you’d be eligible for any childcare funding as a student?

Yeh unfortunately it looks like I'm not eligible for anything at all which is a bit of a hard pill to swallow

We had a similar problem when we used to claim tax credits. I worked 30hrs a week in minimum wage and my DH was a full time student on a postgrad course in healthcare so full 9-5 days of contact time most weeks. And we weren't entitled to the childcare element of tax credits at all. It felt so unfair.