(PRLEAP.COM) Amanda Spink, a project manager from Nottingham, has been taking advantage of the salary conversion childcare voucher scheme offered by her employer Boots for the past year.
Her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Anna attends a private daycare nursery in Nottingham four days a week at a cost of £420 a month while Ms Spink works at the Boots head office.
Ms Spink, who earns £27,000, takes the whole £420 out of her salary as childcare vouchers. "I fill in a form each month saying that I want one voucher for £420 made out to the nursery and post it off in a pre-paid envelope to Busy Bees who provide the vouchers for the scheme," she explains.
"I do it separately each month because this allows me to alter the amount. If, for example, I take Anna to a play group session on my day off, I can add that cost and request another voucher to pay the playgroup.
"Any childcare provider I use who receives the vouchers has to be registered with Busy Bees.
"When I receive the vouchers, I hand them over to the carers who then reclaim the money from Busy Bees and the amount shows up on my payslip as a deduction from my gross salary. The NI saving on £420 would be £42 each month, but for me is actually £36 because I’m in the company pension scheme.
"I’m really pleased with the benefits the scheme offers. To come back to work after Anna was born meant paying out a huge nursery bill, so any help I get with it is very welcome. And from next April when NI rates go up the saving will be more, which makes joining the scheme even more worthwhile."

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