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Comment on Maryland’s Child Support Enforcement Administration Enhances Payment Services to Families by DHR Communications

DHR Communications — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:36:00 +0000

Lysa,

Please call the customer service number on the back of your card to report this issue. Thank you.

Comment on Maryland’s Child Support Enforcement Administration Enhances Payment Services to Families by lysa

lysa — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:27:00 +0000

Payments do not directly post!

Comment on Washington County Office of Child Support Enforcement Creatively Boost Collections in 2012 by NWoo

NWoo — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Great job but you can’t do much to support a kid with $ 50. these days.

Comment on Energy customers in seven Maryland counties to benefit from $600,000 windfall by April

April — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:17:32 +0000

Does the past arrears have to be on a turn off notice? or can it just be a past due amount? i ask because i attempted to contact someone there who was not overly helpful and did not seem to know what i was talking about i have a past due amount of 420 and change due and 520 is total bill. I do not have a turn off notice as of yet but would love to get caught up
Any info is really welcomed i attempted to contact energy assistance local but can not seem to get in touch and due to disability it is not easy to make a trip into office to speak to someone.
Thank You

Comment on Frederick County DSS Holiday Gift Project at Social Services: Help Needed by Dan

Dan — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:30:38 +0000

Hi, I have passed your information along. Someone should be in contact with you shortly! Thank you and Happy Holidays!

Comment on Frederick County DSS Holiday Gift Project at Social Services: Help Needed by Kermie S. Bledsoe

Kermie S. Bledsoe — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:19:41 +0000

I can donate time,Please contact via e-mail.

Comment on Food Stamp Beneficiaries are Eligible for Replacement Benefits by thdrcatz99

thdrcatz99 — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:32:16 +0000

when will we recieve these benefits?

Comment on Sara Start Fund helps former foster kids with life as interns on Capitol Hill by marisinging

marisinging — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:48:34 +0000

For six months I have been providing, free of any charges, sleeping space for a 19-year old young woman whose parents threw her out. For six months I have been unable to find her any help from DSS except for food stamps. No shelter would take her in. I had to shelter her. She recently was able to get PAC. She is diabetic and has not had medication for over a year. Her father took her off his medical insurance. She is pregnant. She is homeless. She has no cash.

I am somewhat aghast at how much is done for foster children in Maryland. I personally have seen a voucher which approved a $500 pair of boots for a foster child (I think it must have been for a foster child. It was for a child who was about to go camping in Colorado). I have personally seen requests, all approved, for movies, at $100, dinners at local restaurants, shopping trips to WalMart with caseworkers, I could go on but this is the tip of a very strange iceberg.

I do not see that foster children, at least in Washington County, appear to be struggling to survive. The young woman I have been trying to help is struggling to survive and there are no resources to help her, except food stamps and, now, PAC.

So, for me to read that foster children leaving the foster care system may be able to become interns in the Capitol, or have other assistance to help them make it in the community, I am confused as to where is the help for young persons who are not in foster care? What happens to them?

Comment on Maryland Commission for Women and the Women Legislators of Maryland seek nominees for the 2012 Women’s Hall of Fame by Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:48:02 +0000

This is a great idea but I hope that this year more “normal” women are nominated. Being the Dean of a University or a Nobel Peace Prize winner is a fabulous achievement for any woman but there are so many “regular” women who make a difference every day not only to the lives of their families but to their communities as well. Single moms who juggle work and raising kids, matriarchs of families who have suffered financially during the last few years and other “ordinary” women – these ladies are people I think we should consider “she-roes” and honor as such.

Comment on Department Of Human Resources Announces Sweeping Changes To Maryland’s Child Support Enforcement Administration by kvoyce

kvoyce — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:57:04 +0000

I can’t wait for the “new” guy and what he says he is going to do….because after what we have been thru with the Child Support Enforcement Agency has not been with good standings. In fact, we think the entire idea from the courts to the so called “child support enforcement” is absolute joke, you can’t bank on anything they claim, because from where we stand there has not been any “enforcement” whatsoever. I think the state of Maryland and the entire state governement, and the county government as a farce. I was a state employee, a damned good one too, I put all I had into my position as I received “Employee of the Year” in 2008, after only a few years on the job. But as I have had to deal with other state agencies and the county governement after losing my state job to Central Nervous Systems Lymes Disease, there was little help if any from several of the state and county offices. Of which I continued to struggle today, waiting for my disability from the Social Security. Anyhoot, if I had received the much needed help as I requested it, things could have had a complete different out come. But you all decided to not give a damn….so now I am sick, no health insurance (so I cannot get treatment), lost my home (therefore homeless)….and if not for my family I would be dead….. But of course you all don’t give a damn. Everything we have done, we have done ourselves with tremendous help from our families….if we did not have that…not sure where we would be.

So keep telling yourself and keep hiring so called experts and keep doing what you all do best. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, because to you all its just a pay check and that is what it will ever be.

Until we see justice for “our” daughter….I will believe then.