Scottish Widows Demutualisation Payouts: £70 million still unclaimed!

margymuggins

Snoopy_rules wrote: »

Today I also received the letter stating they paid me on 21/08/2000. I know I would have remembered if I had got a cheque for over £560. Surely there is something that can be done about this. I feel that it is just a standard letter they are sending out to everyone. Doesn't even have a reference number on it.

Hi just received my post got letter from S/W saying they had paid cheque for £1435.66 on 21/08/2000 WELL I'M DAMM SURE I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT NICE LITTLE WINDFALL just wondering if they're mixed up with a claim made against them for shortfall of payout at end of term but then again it was after we moved in 2002 so dates dont match even i'm so confused seems a lot of people will get this standard letter keep us posted with any advice or news you may have i'm going to ring them and query it will post up with news if any GOOD LUCK with your's snoopy

jpmbosco

I too have received a letter saying that Scottish Widows issued a chequeue for £500 in Aug 2000 and I have not received the cheque as I would have known.

I had a mortagae protection policy, so I now have to try and find out what happened to the chequeue.
Any one got a result on finding info about missing cheques yet?

margymuggins

Hi all you claimants as i said earlier received today letter from S/W stating they had paid cheque on 21/08/2000 i phoned my bank who was really helpful but could not go back as far as 2000 so like others dont know what to do seems like standard letter to everyone and i only knew about it through this site my bank did say contact S/W and see if they can verify these cheques have been paid and cashed i'm tied up now till tues so wont be able to contact till then maybe someone on here could do it before then and post us the news if any or next road to go down good luck to all by the way they must have done a lot of overtime in aug 2000 probably all went on hols sept to recupperate from all cheques processed in 1month

TheMiner

I had the letter stating I had received a cheque in April 2001. However my amount was > £250,000!!!! I have a feeling I might remember that!!

Have e-mailed them (it's got to be a mistake) - I'd moved address and they hadn't had any change of address at the time so there's no way it could have found its way to me.

pipinfort

Yes, we to recieved a letter today saying that we received a cheque in21/08/2000 for £515.39................load of rubbish, we never had such a cheque...online banking goes up to 2003 how can we check?

brooka68

Same letter for me today saying I received cheque for £500 on 21/08/2000. I don't remember this...but i may be wrong...but all these other posts are convincing me that i never did .

ghol26

Me too! I had never heard of the demutualisation until I saw the 23/9/09 MSE information so I filled in their online form. Two days ago I got a letter with no reference stating that I had been sent a cheque for £500 on 21/8/00. Having not moved house or anything and just about to start my first teaching job I would have known that I'd had a £500 windfall for just having a life assurance policy! I immediately sent an email to the address in the letter and am awaiting a reply. Any help with pursuing this money would be fantastic as there must be some explanation as to why so many of us have never received this compensation.....

Couchwarrior

Same story here except a slight difference my cheque was supposedly sent on 16/3/02 seems odd it was 2 years after everyone else , yet I still never recieved it
If anyone does get any joy with these lost cheques please reply I have just emailed them so awaiting a response

lesley76

Surprise, surprise, I too have received, what appears to be, the SW standard letter. My £500 was supposedly sent out to me on the 21/08/2000. I had just started a new job and was single at the time - money was tight and I certainly would not have forgotten a cheque for £500 on my doormat!! SW have been very unhelpful. Firstly I contacted my bank who confirmed they can only go back 6 years, SW told me that all banks have archiving and that my bank will have to dig thru theirs to check. I politely reminded them that as SW owe me, the onus is on them to prove they have paid me! Since then I have been pushed from pillar to post and am getting nowhere, the SW demutualisation department are very elusive! I think I will email them detailing my complaint and maybe complain to FOS, anybody else think this is the way forward?

di3004

If they know this would paid out, how did they find the information on this?
As they state they only hold the info for 6 years, so how did they actually know it was paid, where did they find the info I wonder?
As I would ask them to send me the proof to prove this. (such as a copy of the letter), they bound to have the details somewhere if they state peeps received refunds.

Sorry for being a dim wit here......:o