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To increase child benefit payments to support children during school shut down

Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

To increase child benefit payments to support children during school shut down

Petition Details

Significantly increase child benefit to meet the extra costs such as heating, water, clothing and food for parents having children at home indefinitely.

Additional Information

So children do not slip into poverty and they do not suffer as a result of the government’s measures to cancel school.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300774

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NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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