30 hours free childcare

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I’m self emplpyed and have really inconsistent income, on the application one of the questions is do you expect to earn £139.52 a week for the next 3 months, I put yes but I don’t know if I will, might be more some weeks might be less others. I got issued a code does that mean that’s all approved, how do they check up on income? My next 3 months income and then the next ones after that won’t be registered to hmrc until January 2022 (the latest) if someone can explain a bit more how it works with unknown self employed income that would be great. Thanks

It's all done on an HMRC website so presumably it's very easy for them to cross check your 30 hours application with your tax returns

They use an average - so if it averages out over 3 months at the required there should then that's fine.

Not sure what happens if you don't actually hit the average though if you are earning less than £150 per week? Although if it's a new business they give you 12 months grace period. After that as a self employed person you should really know what you're forecast earning are likely to be - less than £150 per week isn't a full time job and therefore you should be honest that you don't require the childcare?