# Child Care Entitlements

### **If you joined a** **childcare voucher scheme** **on or before 4 October 2018**

You can keep getting vouchers or directly contracted childcare as long as:

- your wages were adjusted on or before 4 October 2018
- you stay with the same employer and they continue to run the scheme
- you do not take an unpaid career break of longer than a year

You can take up to £55 a week of your wages, which you do not pay tax or National Insurance on.

## Government scheme replacing childcare vouchers

After Oct 2018, the Government introduced their own program