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Virginia DCSE needs an Update

The Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement is in the same group as the RIAA, MPAA, the ACLU and PETA. They were started with father_songood intentions but grown into hippocritical agencies. Yes I do agree that there are alot of deadbeat das who refuse to pay child support, but then there are those that cannot pay now do to the failing economy that have been faithful in the payments until the hardships and these people are being treated the same as those who just plain refuse to pay. Also, DCSE fails to hunt down women as much as they hunt down the men. Here is another thing. If the woman, have children in their care, DCSE will not hesitate and give that woman TANIF.

 If a man was paying child support faithfully, not falling behind, they will not hesitate to have you incarcerated. And did you know that the DCSE also charges interest, even if you overpaid? For example, say June 26, you balance is -$150. They will charge you interest of atleaast $1. The Court system may also order you to pay weekly and you do, but if you look at your account, there are sporadic postings. DCSE will “order” a monthly balance a month ahead of time. For instance. The June 26th balance say was -$150. DCSE ordered on the same day $500 (just an amount). So now, until the month is up, you would owe $350. But, since it was ordered a month ahead, and now you “owe” that, DCSE will charge the monthly interest on the amount owed.

 Since DCSE keeps what I call a sporadic ledger, if you happen to go to court of missed amounts, DCSE will present this to the judge to make it look like you were not keeping up with support as ordered.

I am not against the Virginia DCSE, I am however upset with their practices. If you owe them money, the case worker is very easy to get a hold of, if you do not owe them money, or if they take more money from your paycheck than allowed, the case worker then is very difficult to get a hold of and to work with.

In all fairness, the Social Services Departments are geared more to helping women with children that helping men with children and the women knows this and that gets exploited. A man and a woman can do to the Dept. of Social Services with the exact same problem. The woman will come out of the office with help and brochures and names and numbers of other agencies that will help. The man will come out after being told that there is nothing that can be done.

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Project Clovergate: Page County Va’s “Watergate”

cloverPage County Va keeps going from one scandle to another There was the Landfill Gate, Danny Presgraves indictments and now Project Clover, Page County’s own Watergate. On a self proclaimed Page County Watch Blog, there is a lot of chatter about the Project. Recently in the Page News and Courier, Lowell Baughn, spokesmen member of the Page County EDA, had presented a reply that many citizens had been asking about the purchase of the Rebecca Graves Hudson Property. The answer he gave clearly contradicts the contracts agreed between the EDA and Rebecca Graves Hudson. From what is being told, Premiere Technical Services(PTS) is supposed to build on land that the EDA obtains and the EDA had enlisted the help from the Board of Supervisors to fund the money to the EDA to start the project and PTS is supposed to obtained the rest of the loan thru grants while at the same time, $358,000 is to be given to Rebecca Graves Hudson as tax free interest until the loan is paid off and has living will rights to part of the property. The citizens had not known of this until after the contracts had been signed between the EDA and the Estate of Rebecca Graves Hudson.

 

Look at the Page County Watch Blog and download the EDA Contract to know more.

Here is the article as printed in the Page News and Courier:

 

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Dining out with a handicapped Child

dining_outThere was a letter written to the Page County Watch Blog by a couple who had recently went to a restaurant with their autistic child. In the article, they explained about their displeasure on the service they recieved with the waitstaff. Another patron that was there had told the story from their point of view in the comment section. The point is that parents that have handicapped children should not be treated like a lepor but he parent of the handicapped child should know that is the child is being difficult, to try to find out what is wrong. Most parents know that children act differently to different situations. Sometimes, restaurants will get upset if you bring a child in that is misbehaving and other customers start leaving because of it. Yes they are losing business, but the parent of the child should also try to take note and leave and try again another day if the child is having an off day. If you had already ordered your food, some establishments may left you go for free. {loadposition myposition3}If the waitstaff is being rude to you, then fell free not to leave a tip. Even if you are in the right, go ahead and apologize to the manager and tell them you will be back to try again. If he complains that patrons had left because of the child, just tell the manager that you are sorry but you have no controll over disrepectful people and the reason you are leaving for the time being is out of respect for the restaurant. Unless someone has a handicapped child, the waitstaff is not going to understand. If an adult handicapped person had come in and caused a disturbance, the waitstaff would had more than likely deal with it. Dining out should be a pleasant experience all around. Somewhere, someone has to be the better person.

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