Nursery funding
I’ve given and submitted the code for the 30hrs funded hours to my sons nursery and we are due to start April 1st. Basically I put his start date as the first day he is eligible for it.
I have just received my invoice and they are charging me for the full 50hours a week with no funded hours on there.
I have emailed them to clarify but just wondering about other people’s experiences. Am I right in expecting the funded hours to be applied from my first invoice, or is it possible that because the invoice has to be paid BY April 1st (before the funding kicks in) that I have to pay the full cost despite the hours I’m paying for being after April 1st.
Stressing out over it a little, and how I’m going to afford paying that amount before I’ve even returned to work as I was expecting my bill to be nearly half that 😬
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I had this, they told me my code was ineligible but were inputting her details with someone else’s NI number. It got sorted in the end but yeah was stressful!
Invoice was still £650 for April and she doesn’t attend until 14th April 😅
The first two weeks of April are Easter holidays and may not be funded. You need to check if your setting stretches their hours or if they only offer them term time, our childminder doesn’t stretch, so we pay full price for holidays but term time is fully covered as he does exactly 30 hours x
Probably just an admin error as they’ll be getting an influx of codes and information, if they didn’t have your code down previously then they might be running invoices based on the information they did have etc etc. Nurseries are usually pretty good at explaining and dealing with these things x
It’s probably just a mistake their end. My nursery messed up a while back when the extra funding came in I believe. Charged me the whole month 😰 after an email they corrected.
Call them and speak to them, my nursery are very understanding and helpful so definitely just speak to them x
Have they responded? This happened to my first invoice at the nursery when my baby started.
It was just a mistake on their end.
Our nursery were always really good, then they got bought by bright stars and now the invoices are either late or wrong!
It's actually happened again with our funding forms because her booking pattern has changed! Just admin a lot of the time
Also. If they can't answer the phone go there and tell them.. also. The deadline for funding forms is end of March for April funding. They set their own deadline just incase parents are late sending them! I know this because ours was sent to the wrong email address, then when I saw it, the booking pattern was wrong. Then when I went in and said, I'm past the deadline now they were like "oh we don't actually have to send them until end of the month, we just set it early, don't worry about it" I still haven't signed our funding form this term!
Don't pay the invoice until it's correct. If it's not correct and they don't get the money when they should, it's on them. Not you l.
From my understanding the funded hours don’t kick in until the term after your baby turns 9 months old x
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