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[Date & reference] 1997-03-28 This Is Lancashire Wrong dads are being chased
SIR: So at last we are getting a glimmer of truth about the reasons for the CSA (BEN, March 19). "The role of the CSA is to take lone parents off benefit". What about maintenance for the children? The fact is that the CSA far from chasing feckless fathers who would not pay is persecuting the fathers who were already paying because they are the easy targets. Lone mothers, far from receiving any maintenance for the children get any payment deducted, pound for pound from any benefit received. The Conservatives do not care about the distress they have caused, Labour will not say what they will do, only the Liberal Democrats have stated they will scrap this horrendous Act. There are 9000 people in each constituency affected by this Act, maybe they will express their disgust at this Act and the way it is operated, at the ballot box.
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