Money matters

Working parents could be entitled to Tax-Free Childcare worth up to £2,000 per child per year to pay towards regulated holiday clubs during the school holidays advises HMRC.

 

Holly Mackay, mum and CEO of independent financial advice website BoringMoney.co.uk, shares her top tips on what to prioritise when time is short, so you can Forget the gym – it’s time to get financially fitter

 

From helping people buy their first home to government-funded top-ups for savers, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is supporting Talk Money Week – 12 to 18 November – and reminding taxpayers how the department can help boost their finances.

Hannah Parsons, solicitor at DAS Law explains your rights when it comes to summer holiday clubs…

Gill Fielding, author of Solving the Financial Success Puzzle, describes her five key skills to teach our children about saving money.

Working parents can use Tax-Free Childcare to pay for regulated holiday clubs during the Easter holidays. More than 55,000 registered childcare providers including school, football, art and tennis clubs have signed up.

 

Our weekly round-up of money saving discounts for our readers from Pouch.

Parenting Without Tears has teamed up with Pouch to offer readers regular discounts to help you save money on top brands.

Parenting Without Tears has teamed up with Pouch to offer you voucher codes to save money on top brands.

If your daughter or son has just received their GCSE exam results, you should inform HM Revenue and Customs of their educational status ahead of 31 August, otherwise payments of Child Benefit and Child Tax Credits will stop.

Helping your child develop a sense of financial responsibility is crucial in our increasingly cashless society, says Clint Wilson, father of four and the founder and CEO of nimbl, the prepaid MasterCard debit card for children aged eight to 18.

New research from Osper, banking for young people, shows that only one in ten parents, with children aged eight to 18, regularly discusses savings and finances with their children. Here Jasmine Birtles from MoneyMagpie.com and Osper give their top tips for helping your young people kick start their savings.

The TUC is today reminding parents of school age children that they now have access to unpaid parental leave that could help them to secure time off work during the school holidays and this could affect up to four million parents.

Marketing Greece are reassuring holidaymakers currently in Greece, or due to visit Greece in the coming days and weeks, that the authorities have confirmed that the daily ATM withdrawal limit at Greek banks do not affect credit and debit card issued abroad, for which the daily withdrawal limits remain unchanged.

When Anne Coates travelled to Thassos for a recent holiday she tried out the my Travel Cash, a prepaid Mastercard®.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging people to renew their tax credits claim online as soon as possible ahead of the deadline in July.

As of 1 June 2015,  new legislation means that all employers with 50 employees or less, including parents who employ a single nanny will have to auto-enrol their employees into a qualifying pension scheme. Sarah-Jane Butler, founder of Parental Choice, discusses the key pension points for employing a nanny.

Registration opens for married couples and those in a civil partnership to receive the allowance for which they will be eligible from 6 April, 2015.