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Petition to Number 10

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glitterfairy · 19/10/2008 17:46

I am considering a petition to number 10 about the CSA and how useless it is.

I have a vague idea of the wording which I may post up later tonight or tomorrow but wondered if anyone here had any good ideas as well?

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mamalovesmojitos · 19/10/2008 20:27

no ideas to help as i'm not in britain, but just wanted to say good luck!

i'm sure somebody will post with more practical advice soon.

chubbasmum · 19/10/2008 21:52

hi ya ive been chasing CSA as well for a very long time but they have only just recently (-we are talking about this month) changed the way they are dealing with claims so i suggest you keep ringing my case is now beginning to look hopeful after a good year and a few bold patches if he thinks he is being clever he has got a rude awakening. But if you feel you need to do something like yesterday try your MP someone i know did and guess what she got results good luck hope this helps

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glitterfairy · 19/10/2008 22:20

I have got my MP onto the case now but it should never get to that.

What gets to me is that when tax is evaded things happen quickly and everyone gets on the case straight away. With the CSA it is slow slow slow and they cannot guarantee that you will be given money in any case as they cannot force someone to pay (as they keep telling me).

We should have an agency with teeth for the sake of children living in poverty which can act quickly. A year is far too long and I am on my third!

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PurplePumpkinWitchyOne · 20/10/2008 01:49

Keep on and on and on and on at them.

My claim started in 2000 so never had any probs until 2 years ago, when CSA stopped paying me and DWP kept taking it out my IS every week.
2 years on, and I've only just been backpaid. Got the money today.

I threatened both the CSA and DWP with my MP. Keep making a bloody nuiscance of yourself. Ring them every day if you have to. Make yourself known, and keep pestering. They'll soon get fed up and do something.
Send letters, emails, keep calling them. Make yourself so much of a pest, they will have to call out Rentokil.

I am so glad I am opting out of there on the 27th.

Keep kicking out girls. It's your money and it will be backdated.

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glitterfairy · 20/10/2008 07:43

The thing is (and why I think there is a need for a petition to the prime minister) this all takes time and as single parents it is also stressful and we shouldnt have to do it!

When I said I would ring them every week they said they would stop taking my calls!

My X has a habit of being employed one week and not the next in order to escape and each time they say my claim will only start from the day I report it. This is very frustrating because I dont always know he is working, because why should I always have to police him and lastly because my claim should be ongoing not started every time I phone!

I dont understand why he has now been working for three months and I found out a few weeks ago and suddenly can onyl claim from a few weeks ago when at the time he was lying to the CSA and not even paying money from benefits!

My MP wrote to them last week and I will phone today but am still going to start a petition at the number 10 site.

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gillybean2 · 20/10/2008 11:23

Replies to petitions on the number 10 site are so carefully done though. If you give them any riggle room(like all politicians) they cease it and go off at a tangent and answer their own agenda.

I would say word it very carefully, but expect to get a reply saying CSA has been replaces and C-MEC will have more bite...

Sorry but I have seen plenty of petitions full of good intentions completely whitewashed on that site. Politicians spend their lives giving rhetoric and spinning. You have to be as good or better than them to get a straight answer.

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glitterfairy · 20/10/2008 12:24

C-MEC needs to have as much bite as the inland revenue though!

I have written to my MP to ask them what is their policy on the CSA (Tory).

I agree gillybean so wanted to put something like this:

,soWe the undersigned believe that protecting children from poverty is one of the most important signs of a civilised society. The present system of monitoring and supervising parents who do not pay for their children is woefully inadequate and we would like to see the new C-MEC system having similar funding and powers as the inland revenue when finding and chasing non paying parents in order to protect children. ^

What do you think?

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