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Petition update, 18 September 2008

More details from petition creator

It is government policy that people on state benefits (income support, tax credits, etc) have their benefit paid into a bank account. All High Street banks impose charges on banking accounts for going overdrawn, not having funds to cover a direct debit,etc. In the case of accounts which have money from state benefits payed into them , such charges are contrary to section 187 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 or section 45 of the Tax Credits Act 2002. However, the High Street banks continue to ignore this legislation. This petition is to request the Prime Minister to compel the High Street banks to obey the law.

Current signatories

Steven Hall, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Lynda Phillps
• Elisabeth Hall
• Peter Kyei
• Rob Heathcock
• Sam Hall
• Peter Hall
• barry porter
• Richard Norton
• Michelle McGlew
• Alan Phillips
• David Hepplewhite
• Amanda Penfold Southwark Greens
• Gary McGowan
• Elizabeth Glynn
• Andrew Main
• Sharon Burke
• T Martin
• Andy Armstrong
• Christine Harley
• Lisa - Ann Newman
• Margaret Gardiner
• John Talbot
• christine anderson
• Linda Goldsmith
• Kim Hedgecock
• Joanna Smith
• kathleen hynes
• karl hughes
• sukai mahdi
• Peter Wilcox
• EILEEN FREENEY
• Guy Salter
• Jorge Salgado-Reyes
• Christine Fletcher
• Doreen Saunders
• Sally Maybury
• Michael Spiers
• A S Hinkinson-Hodnett
• Jacqui Woodward-Smith
• Barbara Pearson
• Caspar Aremi
• Lynne Coppendale
• David Scullion
• Susan Lightfoot
• paul taylor
• andrew miles
• Justin Bird
• Nicola Spence
• Frank Bird
• Jane Hayes
• Jeffrey Leonard Eker
• Mike Hebblewhite
• JOHN KELLY
• Andrea Ashford
• JANET ELLIS
• mark crook
• David Griffiths
• mandy preston
• F. Duval
• carol williams
• Lee richardson
• Kevin King
• Margaret Thomas-Baptiste
• Charlotte E Downey
• Catherine Weetman
• George Collyer
• James Wyatt-Williams
• dean chapple
• samantha emsley
• Leigh Mayne
• Jacqueline Virr
• Susan Stuart
• David Callow
• Lisa Graham
• Margaret Whittaker
• Katie Conyard
• caroline owen
• rebecca ohara
• teresa hurst
• Ian Walker
• Dennis Welling
• Allison Williams
• clare scanlan
• Richard Marsh
• Lorraine Grocott
• philip marsh
• iona macaulay
• Bradley Smith
• Karen Duxbury-Watkinson
• Adrian Moss
• Alison Lea
• Mr Purmash Chaddha
• Jill Margett
• Howard Rutherford
• Hazel Smith
• Dawn Madden
• kenny symington
• sarah allen
• helen keenleyside
• Linda Goldsmith
• tina gordge
• Lee Thumwood
• Charlotte Thumwood
• Julie Draper
• Thomas Ecclestone
• Andrew Taylor
• Lynn Karran
• kathleen gallagher
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• Patricia Hardy-Watson
• Andrew Pickering
• Michele Wheatley
• B May
• Natalie Padar
• lorraine peabody
• Michelle Armstrong
• VALERIE RETTIE
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• Jason Coupe
• Malcolm Robertson
• sarah greaves
• John Walker
• joanne charles
• dorothy jeffery
• Graham Johnson
• Richard Mugnaioni
• Russell Olding
• Stephen Taylor
• keith peabody
• Craig Vidler
• Trudy Chappell
• Sue Marsh
• Miss.E.Theophanides.
• peter crawford
• may crawford
• elaine hickling
• CHRISSIE WHITNALL
• Linda Janczak
• Cheryl Belgrave
• Linda Hesketh
• selina hesketh
• Michael Smith
• REETA SABBARWAL
• TREVOR LACEY
• C G L Smith
• Amjid Shafiq
• gordon hill
• Marie Collett
• M ROWLAND
• Ian Wadsworth
• Adele Samuels
• Richard Akers
• Michael Li
• Julian Mile
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• Teresa Guest
• Robert & Yvonne Ward
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• kelley sanders
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• Jane Skinner
• Linda Aneto
• E W PARRY
• lydia hanford
• kevin capper
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• jen sadler
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• Dr Filip solberg-wormald
• nicholas vale
• Andrea Willows
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• John Phillips
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• Gerard Diamond
• thomas hooper
• Mrs Emma Alexander
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• Suzanne Macmillan
• Emma Derner
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• Carolyn Crumpton
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• Christopher Yates
• kevin lacey
• Michelle Martin
• Fiona Martin
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• Mandy Jaye
• Sharn and Adam Ross
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• lionel refson
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• Anna Blukacz
• Zoe O'Brien
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• Jan Martin
• Lee Howard
• Paul Harrison
• Darren Bethell
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• martin hall
• R Hackett
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• Desmond Hughes
• Paul Northey
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• Howard Meadows
• James Parker
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• Andrea Robertson
• CATHERINE ANDERSON
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• karen bracegirdle
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• derek wykes
• Nicholas Wild
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• Gary Hills
• Emmajay Welch
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• katie dyer
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