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OTHER
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Other Announcements
TAX-FREE CHILDCARE
Free childcare entitlement will double from
15 hours to 30 hours a week for working
families with 3 and 4 year olds from
September 2017. This is worth up
to £5,000 per child.
The new rules will also include introducing
tax-free childcare from early 2017,
providing up to £2,000 a year per child
to help working parents with their
childcare costs.
This means that a family with 2 children
can begin to claim childcare support worth
up to £40,000 through free hours and
tax-free childcare by the time both children
are at school.
The government will lower the upper
income limit per parent from £150,000
to £100,000 and increase the minimum
income level per parent from the equivalent
of 8 hours to 16 hours at the national
living wage.
CHILDCARE AND THE
IN-WORK RULE
The 30 hours free childcare offer for
working parents of 3 and 4 year olds will
be extended to help families maintain
childcare arrangements and support the
transition back to work at the end of their
parental leave or period of ill health.
Eligibility has been extended to cases
where a parent or their partner is in work
and the other parent is disabled or a carer.
This also applies where a parent or their
partner is taking time away from work on
paid sickness or parental leave.
WELSH RATES OF INCOME TAX
The government will legislate to remove
the requirement for the Welsh Assembly to
hold a referendum in order to implement
the Welsh rates of income tax, to re$ect the
change in the debate in Wales.
HOME ENERGY COSTS
A new obligation that will run for a period of
5 years from April 2017 will be introduced
requiring energy suppliers to reduce carbon
emissions. The changes are projected to
save 24 million households approximately
£30 a year.
PART-TIME MAINTENANCE
LOANS
The government will introduce a new
system of maintenance support for higher
education students wishing to study
part-time by 2018/19 and will consult on
the detail.
LONDON ANNIVERSARY
GAMES AND WORLD
ATHLETICS AND PARALYMPICS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Non-resident competitors in the
2017 World Athletics and Paralympics
Championships and the 2016 London
Anniversary Games will be exempt
from income tax on their earnings from
the event.
30 hours
of free
childcare for 3
& 4 year olds
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