Tax free childcare and universal credit

[Angeldelight21]

Hi mums,
I need urgently an advice on tax free childcare/universal credit. I think I've done something realky wrong and need to fix it.

I have applied for tax free childcare back in September last year and reconfirmed 3 months later in November. I have then applied for universal credit, paid from January this year.

I needed to reconfirm my details for the tax free childcare account and just realised I cannot claim both.

Do I have to go back to Tax-free child maintenance and pay the money back? Or let Universal credit know? It was absolutely unintential and at the last re-confirmation I did not get any UC at the time.

Also, does it mean I will the 15 hrs free childcare fir 2 yrs old from April?

Please help, I need to fix it.
TIA

Ahh damn I wrote a long reply and lost it. No I don't think you have to repay it. I'm in the same situation. You weren't earning UC at the time, it's just going forward now you've reconfirmed and said you're earning UC that you can no longer pay in to the tax free account.

I go back to work next month and had 7 days to close my UC claim, open a tax free childcare account, add money, get the top up and pay the nursery, wish me luck!