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Published / Last Updated on 07/10/2025

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Should I Still Claim Child Benefit if Earning over £60,000 - £80,000?
Should I Still Claim Child Benefit if Earning over £60,000 - £80,000?
Child benefit (2024/25) is £25.60 a week (£1,331.20 per year) for the eldest or only child, up from £24 and £16.95 a week for another younger child, up from ...
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Children
Government Funded Childcare Applications Open for 9mth Olds
Government Funded Childcare Applications Open for 9mth Olds
In April 2024, government funded childcare support started for eligible working parents for 2-year-olds. This means that the current position for government funded childcare is: 30 hours government funded childcare for ...
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Children
History and Introduction to Junior ISA
History and Introduction to Junior ISA
Before 2005, when parents or grandparents opened investment accounts or bank accounts for children, you registered/nominated the account for the child. This means that the account could then grow ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 8. Junior ISA
Child Taxation: 8. Junior ISA
The Child Trust fund was replaced by Junior ISAs (sometimes known as a JISA) in November 2011. Junior ISAs were launched with an initial yearly savings limit of £3,600 ...
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Children
New Student Loans Rules 2023
New Student Loans Rules 2023
New sets of Student Loan rules starting in 2023 have been announced by the Department for Education for students that started their courses after 1 September 2012. We may all ...
> 3y11m
Children
Financial Planning for Step Children 4 - Pension and Investments
Financial Planning for Step Children 4 - Pension and Investments
Our final video in the Step Children series looks at other opportunities for pensions, saving and investing for step children outside of Junior ISAs. 1. Pensions for Step Children Every person ...
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Children
Financial Planning for Step Children 3 - ISA
Financial Planning for Step Children 3 - ISA
What is a Junior ISA? A Junior ISA is a long-term tax efficient savings account for children. It is free from mainstream income taxes and capital gains taxes and operates ...
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Children
Financial Planning for Step Children 2 - RNRB
Financial Planning for Step Children 2 - RNRB
The Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB) for Inheritance Tax of currently £175,000 per person added to the existing nil rate band of £325,000 means that each person that owns ...
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Children
Financial Planning for Step Children 1 - Wills
Financial Planning for Step Children 1 - Wills
If you die without a will or if your will ‘fails’, you die ‘intestate’. This means that the law takes over in how your estate is distributed on death. ...
> 4y1m
Children
Tax Relief on Childcare Fees Reminder
Tax Relief on Childcare Fees Reminder
As covid-19 restrictions lift, furlough ends and people return to work. This week we also see a full return to schools and childcare across the UK, Scottish children are ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 12. Use Adult Pensions
Child Taxation: 12. Use Adult Pensions
If you are a parent of grandparent, another efficient way to save for children or grandchildren is to save extra monies in your own pension scheme. If you are Working: You ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 11. Insurance Bonds
Child Taxation: 11. Insurance Bonds
Insurance investment bonds are collective investment plans in the same way that a stock ISA or personal pension plan is. Collective Investment The stock ISA and personal pension can invest in ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 10. Children's Pension Plan
Child Taxation: 10. Children's Pension Plan
A child is eligible for a pension plan to be opened on their behalf from birth. It is only the parents or legal guardian that can open a pension ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 9. Children Adult ISA
Child Taxation: 9. Children Adult ISA
Earmark ISA, Designated ISA: As a normal ISA cannot usually be in a child’s name but a parent/grandparent can “earmark” the funds held in their own ISA for a child ...
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Children
Child Taxation: 7. Child Trust Fund
Child Taxation: 7. Child Trust Fund
The Child Trust Fund started on 6th April 2005 and was available for children born between September 2002 and January 2011. Every child at birth during that period received government ...
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Children

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