A couple of points. Firstly the vouchers are not provided by the Government, they are provided by your employer, so they cannot possibly be Public Funds. So there cannot possibly be a "No recourse to Public Funds" problem. Secondly, your income is now less than it would have been, and giv...

A couple of points. Firstly the vouchers are not provided by the Government, they are provided by your employer, so they cannot possibly be Public Funds. So there cannot possibly be a "No recourse to Public Funds" problem. Secondly, your income is now less than it would have been, and giv...

..... have signed up to the Childcare benefits program at work and received 1 payment so far This "Childcare benefits programme", exactly what is that? Is it designed by the employer, and nothing to do with the Government? More detail please. As regards public benefits, there is no proble...

jdk, can you firstly explain why you are on a Tier 1 visa, rather than a spouse visa, given your wife is British? Yes sure, when I got married last year I was already fairly well into the tenure of my Tier 1 visa, which had been going for 3.5 yrs. So from my point of view, there did not seem to be ...

In that case there is no entitlement to claim Child Benefit while you are still on a time-limited visa ..... unless by chance you or your spouse worked in Canada (where the terms of the Social Security agreement between the UK and Canada would give you the right to claim UK Child Benefit, as long a...