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Slog on to payment

Penny Owen (Letters, 25 May) is spot-on with her denunciation of companies who make batches of voucher payments without the information the provider needs to allocate them to the right parents. The worst offender's paper remittance advices are spectacularly unhelpful.

The worst offender's paper remittance advices are spectacularly unhelpful.

If you phone their call centre for help you wait ages for a call back. Or, you can log on to their website. When it works, this is the sequence on a high- speed broadband connection: Log in with username and password and 'Sign in', then 'click here to access your account'. Clicking this launches a box with the legend 'Java Sun Microsystems'. The message 'Applet Javaclient loaded' appears. Then another box appears, saying 'Citrix Meta Frame: building network connections', with a progress bar which seems to indicate something is being downloaded to your PC.

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