Tax Free Childcare Accounts

[bednobs]

i am not think but i have a very hard time understanding the amounts the govt pay into my account. I put the exact same amount in every month (946.40) yet the put in varying amounts
Last month they put in £236.60, the month before 92.34, the month before 207.37. Once i did a payment of £1 just to see and they put in 52.09!
Anyway, does anyone know when the periods run to and from or is it dependent on when you opened it? anyone else have these problems?

[ummmm]

Then she'll just be accused of stealing it from people who need it more than her!

[david small]

You didn’t get any family allowance for the first child at all. Obviously the first child needed the most. Pass me downs for second nipper.

[ummmm]

Before mine and bednobs time I think.

[albaqwerty]

child benefit/family allowance started in 1946.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/04/child-benefit-a-potted-history

[spathiphyllum]

V_E you come accross as an uncompassionate anus.

[spathiphyllum]

Everyone step aside.. Step aside! Allow way for the giant head that is V_E.. such a perfect example of a human, so much so he can demoralise others lifes from sheer online judgement!

Step aside i said he needs more room!!

[ummmm]

Sad really. Bednobs wasn't coming here looking for anything but an answer... on a Q&A site!

[andres]

Family allowance in 1956 was ---nothing for the first child ,8/-(40p) for second and I think it was 10/-(50p) for each subsequent child. In 1977 it changed to include payment for the first child as well.The word 'benefits' was unheard of back in the 50s. Back then you could do a helluva lot more with your money than you can today . I could take the train from my local town into Bury ,do a weeks shopping and have change from five pounds.I don't envy the young of today ,it must be a nightmare for some .
As previous posts have pointed out bednobs was only making a query.

[fiction-factory]

>For thirty or more years my wife and I helped her kids and grand-kids without asking a stranger to chip in. It's difficult to work out the attitudea of the smirking spongers, far less to admire them.

No child benefit (family allowance) or state schools then or free NHS treatment, for your wife's kids then, V-E?

[bednobs]

this post really did make me chuckle last night and having read through it again, it's provided me with no end of entertainment.
Thanks Buenchico, what you say makes sense - i did a quick calculation last night to check the overall amounts and thankfully they don't exceed£500 per quarter (i was slightly concerned when the £50 went in after i'd put in £1 that there may have been a mistake) so overall it's ok