Account For Child Without Birth Certificate

jennifernil

xylophone wrote: »

http://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/accounts/branch-accounts/#youngsaver

Here are the details for the Halifax young saver- as you are already a customer, I would suggest that you go into the branch yourself taking bc, and deed polls and explain the situation - you could do the preliminary stage and then take him in with you once this was done?

I would suggest this account too. You need to open it for him anyway, so do as suggested and stress the need for them to get it right.

However, if your branch is like most, you cannot just go in and open the account immediately, they will want you to make an appointment. You could either ring them first, or just drop in to make the appointment. They will tell you what you need to bring with you. There will be a private area used.

Once you have discussed it and set things up, if your son is to operate the account himself, I would think you will probably need to arrange to take him in to sign something. But you can ask them about all that.

PDB77

I have nobody to look after them, hubby works 6 days a week I have no choice but to take them to the bank with me and hope they behave and say nothing to their big brother.

I shall go to halifax Friday hopefully and just try with tax credit letter as ID first, if it won't work I can then produce birth certificate and try again.

arsenalboy

Unless I am missing something in your original post the birth certificate would be of no use as it doesn't have the name on it that the account would be opened in?

SliAbhaile

PDB77 wrote: »

I have nobody to look after them, hubby works 6 days a week I have no choice but to take them to the bank with me

Not a big deal. I'm a stay-at-home-dad and have taken our now three-year-old to all my meetings with my bank manager, accountant and IFA, she is well used to it and enjoys sitting at the desk pretending to take part. Give her a few sheets of A4 and a pen and she is as happy as she would be at the playground.

Positive thinking. It'll be fine. Remember, if you are stressed they'll be stressed. Set out to enjoy it and they will too.