ITC Legal Services - Avoid Them

ljo

when I was told the assets would go into a holding account which did not pay interest, I demanded they put the money in my account. Cheques were sent to me. Be firm its your money!

joeshaver

I've been shopping since I retired and I love it. I don't travel as far as I did before gas prices went up but I try to coordinate shops to avoid extra driving.I'm in northern California.

portlandboy

ljo wrote: »

when I was told the assets would go into a holding account which did not pay interest, I demanded they put the money in my account. Cheques were sent to me. Be firm its your money!

Good move there, well done. I wasn't aware that you could do that. Wish I'd known.

portlandboy

joeshaver wrote: »

I've been shopping since I retired and I love it. I don't travel as far as I did before gas prices went up but I try to coordinate shops to avoid extra driving.I'm in northern California.

Good for you...hope the traffic isn't too bad on the way home!
Is this Martin Trees???

John_Pierpoint

ljo wrote: »

when I was told the assets would go into a holding account which did not pay interest, I demanded they put the money in my account. Cheques were sent to me. Be firm its your money!

If this ITC organisation reported to the Law Society (which it obviously does not) am I right in thinking any of the client's funds would have to be held in a deposit interest earning account? It is not a lot these days, but it is still worth having.
I had this problem collecting my late uncle's nest egg from a monthly interest account at Barclays.
It had the monthly interest added to the account. Even though I had asked for an electronic transfer, to an executor account I had opened at Barclays, it still took 3 weeks to hand write me a cheque (thus getting the funds delayed in the post and clearing for another week).
So I wrote and asked where the interest was for the extra three weeks and got another 90 quid.

datostar

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

If this ITC organisation reported to the Law Society (which it obviously does not) am I right in thinking any of the client's funds would have to be held in a deposit interest earning account? It is not a lot these days, but it is still worth having.
I had this problem collecting my late uncle's nest egg from a monthly interest account at Barclays.
It had the monthly interest added to the account. Even though I had asked for an electronic transfer, to an executor account I had opened at Barclays, it still took 3 weeks to hand write me a cheque (thus getting the funds delayed in the post and clearing for another week).
So I wrote and asked where the interest was for the extra three weeks and got another 90 quid.

Barclays really don't seem to like having to deal with lay executors, do they? Seems to be obstacles and delays all the way. No doubt if we'd had the good sense to accept their recommendation of ITC, everything in the garden would be rosy (until the bill came in).

eric_the_half-a-bee_2

portlandboy wrote: »

The thing that bothers me with Barclays and ITC is the fact that Barclays seem to think it is acceptable to hand personal and private details of the deceased to ITC without consulting the executors. They state that the Data Protection Act does not cover deceased people. Well legally they may well be correct, but morally...?

I agrree with you in spirit, but my school-of-hard-knocks cynicism has taught me that "legally X" can rarely (if ever) be equated with "morally X"

In fact, last January, it was SO cold, I saw a lawyer with his hands in his OWN pockets!!!

Also "law" and "justice" very rarely share a bed

eric_the_half-a-bee_2

My natural inclination in these things is action rather than words, and I have been racking my brains for lawful (and none too onerous) ways to "get busy".

Unfortunately all I could come up with was for our pooeld resources and experience to research the "good guys" in this same field (if there are any) and then have some sort of league table so that we could point folk to the helpful ones, rather than repeating what we already all know (sadly to our cost) about the rogues!

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I found this site - even if its only for that "thank god its not just me" moment - but I dont see much mileage in whingeing and wound-licking over and above a little solace to those already stung.

For example, Daily Mirror the article metioned in an earlier post <sorry the site wont let me post the link> mentions "Adam Walker, from Final Duties, who has been campaigning for statutory regulation, says: 'It's farcical. Anyone can set up a will-writing or probate service. I could recruit a tramp and he could be in business tomorrow."

He seems on the face of it to be a bloke who'd be "on our side" - has anybody had dealings? Would I have been better off going to (or "being found by"!!!) them? etc are the sort of things I'd want to know if I was an un-stung newcomer reading this for advice

rick

John_Pierpoint

datostar wrote: »

Barclays really don't seem to like having to deal with lay executors, do they? Seems to be obstacles and delays all the way. No doubt if we'd had the good sense to accept their recommendation of ITC, everything in the garden would be rosy (until the bill came in).

When I got "the berievement section" ie ITC pretending to be Barclays. all they did was get Barclays Leicester to write the same brain dead computer letters to me that I had extracted from them 6 months earlier.
So even with a big bill, I doubt the outcome would have been any more competent.

datostar

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

When I got "the berievement section" ie ITC pretending to be Barclays. all they did was get Barclays Leicester to write the same brain dead computer letters to me that I had extracted from them 6 months earlier.
So even with a big bill, I doubt the outcome would have been any more competent.

The dozy beggars just sent a statement addressed directly to the deceased, despite having been informed of the death 3 weeks previously, so I've got all the information I need and the Probate Application has gone in. I won't speak to them again until the Grant of Probate is in my hands. They should be hard put to find any more excuses then and there'll be no reason for any more importuning by or on behalf of ITC, alias Bereavement Section.
Contrast with the local solicitor I saw to get 2 certified copies of the will done He charged me £5 and spent 15 minutes or so giving me free advice. Excellent chap!