CSA staff stand to receive £25m in bonuses for failing system?

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I would like to organise a march through London for all us parents who are in the loop with this failing system.

Men and women alike who do not receive money for our children from absent parents who refuse to pay and work a system that doesn't work.

Does anyone know how to get the ball rolling because we need to make a stand. please email the address above or contact me through my yahoo email address or have a read of my 360 blogg!! I work fulltime, and i married him, some parents need this money to return to work, yes every case is different but i know in my case my children are owed £32k, and this debt has spiralled out of control due to the governments neglect.

I want honest reliable people on bored here, it's about the financial side for our children. You maybe a DAD at home with children, absent mothers, absent fathers we didn't have these children on our own!!! Thank you

I have been on benefit and they didn't prioritise my case out of £32k, £9k of that is tax payers money!

vicki w....i read some of your questions, one being your pregnant, i really do hope you are never in my situation, how rude are you!!!

Answer 1

I've just read this and your subsequent 2 "questions". I understand your frustration, but this is probably not the best place to gather support for your plans.

I would try posting messages on Boards that relate directly to single-parents. The link below gives lots of possible websites:

http://www.gingerbreadni.org/OtherLoneParentOrgs.htm

This may seem a stupid question, but have you tried contacting your MP? If you've already done so, why not write & email other MP's:

http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm

Have you contacted the opposition leaders and shadow ministers responsible for the CSA. David Cameron could be Prime Minister in a couple of years, the Conservatives are still building their policies, you could have a direct influence.

Have you checked out Yahoo News Message Boards:

http://uk.messages.news.yahoo.com/

The Family section under Domestic have several CSA related streams. Under Politics, the Domestic Politics section would be a good place to start your own string.

Good luck with your plans

Answer 2

In the interests of balance, this Government has positively encouraged the breakdown of marriage, encouraged single parenthood and other alternative lifestyles. The CSA has also persecuted and pursued some fathers for unreasonable amounts of money. Some mothers, despite court orders, refuse too let fathers have access to their children, some positively denigrate fathers in the eyes of their children.

Women have the freedom to choose whether they have the child or not, whether to involve the father or not, but, he will probably have to pay anyway.

Yes, I know that the CSA is inefficient, but then aren't all public sector bodies, because they have no competition.

The fundamental problem is that there are too many children living with single parents. That is the main problem that needs to be solved. A start, would be to stop encouraging it.

Answer 3

i would love to come on board, but unfortunatley i have to work full time to support my family, as i got into serious debt as my sons father was only paying £5 a week.
The CSA are **** and dont deserve such bonuses.
But good luck, i hope you get at least some of the money that your owed.

Answer 4

Ahh, yes! But just imagine how much the bonuses would have been if they'd been successful! It doesn't bear thinking about!

But seriously -- it is ridiculous -- just as is the regular spending of multi milions on computer systems which are out dated by the time they are impemented and never work proeprly or do not integrate effectiveley.

Some fat cats somewhere are licking their lips, sipping 'Chateau de Chasselais' in the sun and asking 'Who'd have thought it?'...many times over... thanks to such stupidity!

Good luck with your cause!

Answer 5

Rewarding failure is madness,surely anyone who makes such an incompetent mess of their job should be sacked the money should used to trace missing parents. This government takes no regard for petitions this not democracy! The taxpayer will have to pay again.

Answer 6

On one hand, in basic terms 0.23% of the bailout money became used for govt bonuses, yet thinking the massive quantity of illiquid sources that those banks would desire to liquidate, this is a huge chew of exchange to be dropping on bonuses. the purpose of the bailout became quite specific... and the $a million.6B in bonuses would not even talk to the salaries those all people is earning. i'd desire to work out paying specialists that plenty money to help them liquidate, yet that's getting used as frickin' reward money. reward for WHAT? Getting the bailout money from the government, of path.

Answer 7

hi I have 2 teenage sons & a ex husband who refused to pay ,but I also have a new partner with 2 daughters when his payments were calculated they took my income in to the equation to pay for his kids
the system has let me & my kids down on both counts I pay for his kids & get nothing for mine
& child tax credits ain't much better

Answer 8

I dont know how to help, I just wish I could...!
25 million in bonuses for what..? Maybe thats the question.

Answer 9

CSA staff to receive £25m in bonuses. i thinks it`s disgusting - what a joke..

Answer 10

if you was on the dole they would have prioritised your case so they wouldnt have to pay you as many benefits. Sad but true.