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Affordable Childcare Payment - with ECCE?

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  • 11-09-2017 6:03pm
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    Plek Trum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    My daughter has started at playschool / montessori this September, everything going great, she loves it!

    Until now we were paying our private childminder (not Tulsa registered)it is our first time qualifying for any support for childcare.

    I qualify for Band B , currently a reduction of €70 per week, full time 9 - 5. Daughter qualifies for free ECCE placement in January 2018.

    Can anyone explain how the new reduction / supports will work in January? With her free 3 hours ECCE placement she will still be attending for an additional 5 hours per day.

    From my reading, under Band B, this would be a weekly reduction of €35 on the balance of the hours due for payment?

    OR - Is it the cost of hours due minus the €20 universal childcare payment??


    I'm new to the childcare facility so don't want to be asking all money related/ entitlement questions at this early stage (!) If anyone could confirm I would hugely appreciate it.

    Many thanks!


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    #2
    Vmash
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Vmash


    From my understanding (open to correction) once your child reaches 3 years then they switch to the ECCE scheme and get their free 3 hrs and I don't think you get any more after that as you only get the subsidies if your child is aged 6 months to 3 years. You may still qualify for the universal E20 payment tho.

    Head wrecking stuff this new scheme.
    Hth


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    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,054 ✭✭✭✭neris


    If your childs on the ECCE scheme and going to a pre school the ECCE session is covered but no payment can be made to your childminder especially if they arent registered. If your childs in a creche the ecce will be deducted from your creche fees.


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    Keogh08
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Keogh08


    Hi Plek Trum,

    Did you find out how the ECCE & childcare subvention intertwine?

    Previously with my older children you couldn't receive both the ECCE and subvention simultaneously but picked the most beneficial, I always kept the subvention as that was more then the ECCE. I think that recent budgets have changed this & that you can now receive both together, possibly just a proportion of both?

    Don't want to approach creche yet as I'm only making plans for Sept but would like to know how you got on?

    Thanks


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