Tax Credits / Childcare vouchers... HELP!

[Otta]

Hello, our 2 year old daughter will soon be starting nursury 3 mornings a week, at a cost of about ?100 a week.

Now, we get child benefit, and about ?40 a month (Woohoo) tax credit. Our joint income is something like ?54k a year. It just seems that we keep hearing about people getting loads of help, and either they're playing the system somehow, or we're not getting everything we're entitled to.

Mrs otta can get some vouchers through her work, where basically you don't pay tax or ni on that part of your salery, but that is not going to be much of a saving.

does anyone know about these things, who could offer some advise?

also, does tax credit go up when you have a second child?

[Fuschia]

ask abouut the childcare element of working tax credit

from aged 3 the nursery should be free for 15h pw