Bank Account for bad credit rating?

tagnut69

Hi this is my first posting on here so please be gentle with me

I am in need of a bank account just a basic one, cheap as poss to run but for someone with a bad credit rating. I guess that this question has been asked many times over but trying to search for the words bank and account does throw up to many results and made my brain hurt.

Any help much appreciated

Chris

seeya23

have look here http://yourmoney.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/HTML/en/products/bank_accounts/basic_bank_accounts_popup.htm

fatbelly

You need to search for basic and bank and account

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/basic-bank-accounts

Full list here as a pdf

loopy.magic

I have a bad credit rating as well. I was able to open a Barclays Cashcard account (no chequebook) and also the Nationwide Flexaccount. You should be able to open up either, the only reason you may not be able to is if you have some bad debt with either.

tagnut69

Cheers people, I phoned Barclays today and the woman I spoke to said it should not be a peoblem to open a cash card account with bad debt

fabulously_rich

I opened one on Friday, all went very well, really helpful .. good luck!