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  • Curry_Queen
    Curry_Queen Posts: 5,589 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    filigree wrote:
    It's not good moneysaving practice but sometimes I think I'd be better keeping my savings in a sock under the mattress. I can't conceal my current savings but if no-one knows about future savings I can't be penalised for them.

    That's the way I'm beginning to think too filigree :(

    I've told the DWP about all my accounts, barring a new savings account I opened recently, but then my CB is paid directly into that so they know it exists anyway. I'm nowhere near the threshold yet but it makes it a pointless task looking for accounts that yield a high interest rate and I can forget about ever hoping to have an ISA as that's my savings limit gone straight away :(
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
    ~
    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!

  • Fran
    Fran Posts: 11,280 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Zziggi,

    That makes so much sense, you put it really well.
    Torgwen.......... :) ...........
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