Thousands still unable to claim free childcare after HMRC site problems

Nicky Morgan, Treasury select committee chair, to quiz HMRC boss after technical difficulties leave parents unable to access new schemes

Thousands are still unable to apply to claim free childcare because of technical difficulties with HMRC’s website, a letter to the Treasury select committee chair, Nicky Morgan, has revealed.

Morgan said she would quiz the department at the committee’s hearing in the autumn, after the HMRC chief executive, Jon Thompson, wrote to her admitting that 2,600 parents are still waiting for technical issues to be resolved.

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