Submitted on Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Rejected on Friday 6th August 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop businesses refusing cash and only taking card payments
High street retailers, holiday resorts, amusement parks have stopped accepting cash and will only accept a form of card payment. Cash is legal tender and refusing cash people's freedom in how they want to pay for goods or services
Moving toward a 'card only' completely removes people's freedom. Children and Adults receive cash as a gift, children especially are affected as they will be unable to use their cash to buy themselves a gift from a amusement park for example.
Cash is one of the most secure forms of payment, once handed over unless enforced by law, cannot be retrieved back, a card payment can be 'charged back' without much restriction making businesses potentially offer a service without receiving payment.
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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.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/588814
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