Reconfirming your child’s eligibility code (expanded and extended hours funding)
Once you have been issued a valid code, this must be re-confirmed every three months to ensure your child continues to remain eligible.
Failure to reconfirm could mean that your child’s access to expanded or extended hours funding, will cease. This means that although your family may continue to meet the eligibility criteria, the details held by HMRC are no longer “in date.”
If your circumstances have changed when you re-confirm your child’s code, meaning that you are no longer eligible, your child may continue to access funding for a short time if your they are already in attendance with a childcare provider. This is known as the ‘grace period’
Once the ‘grace period’ has ended, your child will no longer be able to access the expanded or extended funding, until the term after you have successfully re-confirmed your eligibility. If this is the case, you will need to meet the costs of your childcare until eligibility is resumed.
Please note: a child cannot start with a new childcare provider in their grace period.