People must be getting bored of this now, but it is something I feel very passionate about, and they really are starting to wind me up more and more with their goings on, especially with me. 

So here we go, my latest addition leter to my Member of Parliment, not the first, but hopefully the first to which their will be a reply. 

Feedback more than welcome. 

Dear Sir,

Not so long ago I wrote to you with my concerns of the Child Support Agency(CSA).  Now that my case has been dealt with and that everything is in place, I find myself in a position to do so once more. 

The CSA have gone now to make a deduction from my earning's of 30%.  This is made up of 25% due to me having 3 children, and also 5% arrears.  I have been advised that this 5% is a normal and that I will not be able to negotiate it.  So on top of my normal income tax and insurance, this will make me paying over 50% of my weekly salary directly to the government.  This is due to the mother's of my children claiming benefits.  Once more a situation i did not create and have no control over. 

Let me make it very clear, that I have never once shroud away from my responsibility as a father, and take great pleasure in the access that I have to my children, although I wish it was more it is not a situation that I can control.  I have always maintained myself ready to see the children, and help in the upbringing of them as much as i am allowed to do.  I have supported financially to the best of my ability until the CSA became involved and have always made sure as I can that they have not had to want for anything.  This although is a situation that I can no longer maintain with the CSA against me.  I feel due to the CSA the children will suffer more than they would of done without the CSA. 

I have heard the arguments, that due to them being on state benefits, I should contribute towards them.  I see this as a mute point, due to the fact that I pay my income tax, and national insurance towards the welfare state.  Whether it be towards the pension of an elderly person, or towards a single mother, who is struggling.  At some point we all need help and this is why we all pay towards it.  It enrages me then the fact, due to situations out of my control, that the government of this country see fit for me to subsides this a further 30%.  How can this justified when people have to live themselves.  As stated I am all for my contribution to the children's, upbringing and keep - but at a level that is fees able and affordable. 

I believe the CSA is an arm of the government, who are looking to penalise people that are an easy target.  Myself I am such a target.  It is people like myself that are being punished, who are willing to try and do as much as they can but to some. i.e. the government, this is not good enough.  It is people like myself that are being targeted by the government, to compensate against their failings.  The CSA should be used, to find and make the estranged parents who do not wish to contribute and enforce them to help towards the upbringing of their children.  It should leave people that are trying to their best, like myself well alone. 

Due to the CSA, I have had to move back to my parents house at the age of 27 this is not quite correct.  I should be a valid member of society, with a home of my own.  Unfortunately due to the CSA this will never be attainable with the payments I have to make to them.  Now also with these forced payments against me by the CSA, I am finding it all the more of a struggle to get to work.  It is becoming to the point, where I may have to give up work.  So by the aid of a government body, I have been forced from a home, basically onto the streets if it had not been to my kind parents and now it looks ever more realistic, onto the unemployment list. 

What government can force a person to become a statistic? 

Yours faithfully