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<p>Eligibility for the 30 hours entitlement is based on parental income. It is available
to families where both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a lone
parent family), and each parent earns the equivalent of a weekly minimum of 16 hours
at national minimum wage or national living wage, and less than £100,000 per year.
This also includes self-employed parents and parents on zero-hour contracts.</p><p>The
government has made provisions to ensure that parents in certain circumstances will
be regarded as being in work. This includes couple families where one parent is in
receipt of benefits relating to caring responsibilities or their disability.</p><p>Full
details on the eligibility criteria are set out in the regulations, which can be found
here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1257/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1257/contents/made</a>.</p><p>
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