Childcare benefits

New and updated

• Basic pay and benefits

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect changes to the tax rules on PILON, and revised tax charges on company cars, vans and fuel benefit, effective from 6 April 2018.

• How to deal with maternity pay, salary sacrifice and childcare vouchers

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to reflect the increase to the statutory maternity pay rate from 1 April 2018.

• How to ensure compliance with the law on childcare vouchers

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include information on the delay in the closure of childcare voucher schemes to new entrants.

• Can employers still operate a childcare voucher scheme following the introduction of Tax-free Childcare?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Employer childcare voucher schemes get six-month reprieve

  Date:

  14 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  Plans to scrap employer childcare voucher schemes have been delayed by six months after the Democratic Unionist Party intervened.

• What is the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What is the role of employers in the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Doubling of free entitlement under childcare scheme introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Extension of the free childcare scheme to 30 hours per week for parents of children aged three and four years old introduced.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2017: Long-service, childcare and travel benefits

  Date:

  13 July 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Here, we look at the findings from the XpertHR survey of benefits and allowances, presenting data on the availability of a number of benefits including long-service awards, childcare and travel benefits, location payments, volunteer days and various allowances.

• Podcast: Case law update

  Date:

  7 July 2017

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We provide a mid-year round-up of key employment law cases in 2017.