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Get your nursery fees reimbursed when you are serving overseas in an area where there are no MOD schools/facilities
All Regular Service and Full Time Reserve Service (Full Commitment) personnel and entitled civilians are eligible when they are assigned overseas and there is no suitable MOD provided school/ facility available for any 3 or 4-year-old children accompanying them.
This is to ensure that you aren’t disadvantaged when you are serving overseas in an area that doesn’t have MOD provided schools/facilities, compared to what childcare support is available for 3- and 4-year-olds in England.
You can only claim this reimbursement if you are using registered, regulated and inspected childcare settings.
If both parents or a sole parent in a lone parent family, meet the minimum earnings threshold, you will be refunded for the cost of up to 1140 hours of nursery fees over a 12-month period for each 3 and 4-year old (term time only). If just one parent in a two-parent family is working, you will be refunded 570 hours. Children become eligible from the term following their third birthday.
In addition to tuition fees, you will also be reimbursed for:
any registration/enrolment fee(s);
processing fees;
insurance fees;
material fees.
In order to apply, before enrolling your child in a nursery you should complete Annex A to 2022DIN01-008 and get this signed off by your Commanding Officer. If you are claiming over the 570 hours entitlement (or 1140 hours if appropriate), Annex B must also be completed.
If you are entitled to claim the full 1140 hours entitlement, you must also complete Annex A to 2021DIN01-085 (defnet access required).
Once sign off has been received, you need to submit a claim each month or each term via JPA iexpenses (overseas child expenses). More information can be found in the Overseas Nursery Authority and UIFSM self-service user guide, which can be found at JPA user guides
If you don’t have access to JPA then you should speak to your administration unit and arrange for refunds to be paid under local arrangements
If you have any general queries please email the AFFS team at People-AFFS-Child-Expenses@mod.gov.uk
read the DIN on the Overseas Nursery Authority
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