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Petition update, 22 May 2009

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Recently, the government have announced plans to change the rules of income support,stopping the benefit and expecting parents to find employment once a child reaches the age of 12 in October 2008, this age will eventually go down to the age of 7 in the year 2010.

As a single parent who works full time, I suffer the consequences of childcare costs. Tax credits currently pay a maximum, dependant on how many children the parent(s) have, and dependant on income. Having worked out my incomings/outgoings and compared it to the figure of what I would recieve on benefit, I would be far better off not working, there are many parents, both one parent and two parent families in the same boat as myself. Full time employees are living below the breadline. It does not make financial sense for people to come off benefit to make a return to work, there is no incentive. Many people want to work, they want the identity and social status that comes along with being an employee. However, they stay on benefit as they cannot reasonably afford childcare costs. I petition the Prime Minister to review the tax credit/benefit system in order to make it financially feesible for parents to undertake employment.

Current signatories

Ms Susan Taylor, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• liz fisher
• Jo Brooker
• miss berney gillett
• Benjamin Duthie
• Katharine Garland
• ROSALEEN MCLAUGHLIN
• Rachel Banner
• Rachael Tolton
• Leigh Wilson
• Denise Crowe
• Sandra Mitchell
• Alan Willis
• sarah barlow
• Donna Colclough
• faye spurway
• JOANNE AKINS
• Clare Comish
• claire carey
• Kelly Russell
• stephanie
• Nicky Benton
• Bob rayner
• Tara Cunnane
• Kaleigh Brook
• lynne crook
• susan hall
• michelle cochrane
• Kay Stratton
• Samantha Weatherley
• Kat Slater
• Joanne Ingram
• May Duncan
• AUDREY BARNETT
• Sahra Taylor
• Abigail Morley
• Laura Chambers
• Gemma Freer
• Angela MacLaren
• Darren Woollam
• Hayley Rebecca Wakeman
• Amanda Gunn
• Ben Parish
• IAN MCPHEE
• emma gray
• Leanne Smedley
• clare cudlip
• k degnen
• Allan Mackay
• Julie Taylor
• lorraine millward
• cheryl bailey
• Kerry Robinson
• Carl Bridge (petitions.pm.gov.uk/sharedcare)
• kathleen mccauley
• Brian Gorman
• yvanne mclaren
• Charlene Irvine
• Natalie McCullagh
• Naomi Naumik
• Julia Davis
• JUDY ADAM
• E Sanders
• Hannah Hunter
• Alison Bage
• James
• Dick King
• S King
• jennifer tapping
• Matt
• michelle tomkins
• Sue Tarpey
• lisa mullan
• kerri jones
• lyndsey slater
• Simone Rudge
• ellie tomlinson
• sharon kirby
• Sarah-Jane Collins
• alison williams
• Amanda Shaw
• Karen Burniston
• Claire forbes
• Barbara Shepherd
• Karen Tennant
• ervin woolley
• kellie marlowe
• Valerie Jackson
• natalie weir
• Sharon Edwards
• britt tabbner
• Ashley Moore
• Carol Greatrex
• Vicky Weekes
• Vicky Matthews
• S Hawkins
• wendy ann morgan
• caroline vernon
• Jessica Hanna
• Raymond Earls
• vicky fallows
• Suzanne Logna
• Lisa bain
• wendy rumsey
• Emma Witton
• Bonnie White
• diane cruickshank
• Louise Taylor
• tracey
• m mclennan
• Thomas Brook
• susan wight
• Karen reid
• Marjorie Kirkpatrick
• Douglas Cowie
• cecelia nichol
• Kerri McCloskey
• Lynne Smith
• Kay Owen
• lisa harris
• Angela Leyland
• michelle winrow
• imogen sewell
• Ashley
• John Loach
• Tracy Shipley
• Julia Melling
• Jennifer Gray
• Rochelle Daniels
• Claire Adams
• Casey Mainland
• sasha tuck
• ALEXANDRA COFFMAN
• corina
• Michelle smith
• karyn neville
• Nikki D
• tina gibson
• Louisa Taylor
• Emma Nicholls
• colin foreman
• Mrs Caroline Wiggins
• Alayne Krawczyk
• A Macleod
• Chris Tague
• jjacquir@aol.com
• Claire Sylvia Harris
• rachael berry
• Teresa Oakley
• Jessica Tomlinson
• Isobel Oakley
• Nikki
• jenifer triggle
• sarah franks
• Tiina McVarish
• nigel robinson
• Lesley Sholes
• miss sinead egerton
• kerry amos
• mary-ann binks
• Jennifer A. Shepherd
• nigel pearson
• A S
• Ben Ballard
• carol mcclenn
• Lindsay Brown
• lorraine andrews
• Karen Butler
• SHARON WALTON
• Grant Ratcliffe
• Linda Lucas
• Shabnum Hassan
• Sarah Lovell
• jade kenny
• Ian Bickmore
• angela cousland
• Nikolas S. Andersen
• Alanna-single parent,FT student,worked since 16,better off on benefits but trying to set example
• V P NEDYALKOVA
• Fiona Webb
• Laura Easdale
• charlene kollecker (petitions.number10.gov.uk/TheLaw/)
• Cathryn Horton
• C Middleton
• Evelyn young
• M Monney
• Renata Grieve
• Bethany Pearce
• carolyn cooper
• Donna Rose
• Gemma Gill
• Erin Cameron
• Sarah Faulkner
• Rebecca Patrickson
• Monica Mills
• Julie Bayfield
• Tanya Gray
• Nicola Cleary
• Alisha Rees
• Alison Trow
• sonya brown
• Rachel Aucott
• agree that way so many dont't work
• sarah manning
• Leigh Manistre Jagger
• deborah douglas
• kirsti marie freestone
• Helen Charlesworth
• Richard Carling
• Elaine M Callaghan
• Elaine M Callaghan