Welcome to Child Benefit for Two (CB42)
Campaign to bring fairness and equity to both parents raising a child in Britain today
The below petition is now closed and received 438 Signatures and prompted a response from Government. The response however is very poor.
We would now like to kindly ask you to get your MP to sign the following Early Day Motion. To locate your MP, and send them an email seeking their support please visit: www.theyworkforyou.com
BENEFITS SYSTEM AND SHARED PARENTING
16.12.2008
Sanders, Adrian
That this House notes that child benefit can only be paid to one parent; further notes that this unnecessarily discriminates against the other parent where parents are separated and maintain shared custody of children; further notes that this can further discriminate against one parent by preventing access to suitable housing and additional income to allow them to provide for children; further notes that this can lead to restricted access for one parent to see their children; and calls on the Government to take action to address these problems.
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37315&SESSION=899
Thank you for your support to our Downing Street Petition:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/cb42org/
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reform the way in which Child Benefit is paid between both parents, as opposed to just one.
Child Benefit should be able to be payable to both parents in the event of parental separation or divorce, where both parents continue to play an equal and substantive caring role in their children's upbringing. Today's system of only paying Child Benefit to one parent enacts discriminatory laws and policies that lead to imbalances in parents ability to equally care for their children and to maintain an equal status with regards to access to State provisions and benefit entitlements. Child Benefit is often a gateway to other benefits and also can act as a financial incentive by one parent to limit the other parents parenting time to trigger qualification for Child Support payments when no such payments are necessary if shared parenting time and equal split of Child Benefit had established equality of roles. Each case should then be measured on its own merits.
Footnote: Her Majesties Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department ignores a parents equal status, even if they hold a Children Act Court Order for Shared Residence. The Parent With Care (PWC) is the parent in receipt of the Child Benefit payments, and this can only be one parent. This promotes single parent control with superior access to additional services and support and exclusion of the other active parent labelled as Non-Resident or Parent Without Care merely because HMRC do not recognise a Shared Parenting status. http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/
Contact us: enquiry@cb42.org
Child Benefit For Two (CB42.org) will lobby the Government on the current legislation which only supports the issuing of Child Benefit to one parent regardless of both parents active involvement in the child's upbringing
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