Old Account book found

crawli1

Hi, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong area but just need some information. My OH found his old Leeds Permanent Building Society "Young Leeder" account book at his mums. The account was never closed and still had money in it the last time the book was updated (26/04/1991). We know that this building society was taken over by the Halifax. What I want to know is, how can my OH find out more information about the account 16 years on (if still open or closed - how much is in the account now etc, etc)?
Any Help would be very much appreciated.

RayWolfe

My guess would be to ask the Halifax ... what's yours?

hotdiggerdy

yup, ask halifax you will probably need to take in some form of id and your mum will have to come with you too with id if she opened the account and is signatory to it. i had an account similar but not with halifax and this is what i had to do... bit embarrasing having to take your mum with you especially as i was pushing 40 at the time:eek:

Biggles

The answer's on the Savings & Investments board, someone was asking the same question the other day.

There's a useful link to give details online, which I used myself (then sit back for six weeks, it says...)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=445165

crawli1

Thanks guys - followed Biggles link and got a link to the Halifax dormant account page to complete a form. Just got to wait 6 weeks now. Thanks again.

digerati

crawli1 wrote: »

Hi, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong area but just need some information. My OH found his old Leeds Permanent Building Society "Young Leeder" account book at his mums. The account was never closed and still had money in it the last time the book was updated (26/04/1991). We know that this building society was taken over by the Halifax. What I want to know is, how can my OH find out more information about the account 16 years on (if still open or closed - how much is in the account now etc, etc)?
Any Help would be very much appreciated.

If your OH was over 18 when Halifax demutualized in 97/98 then he might be in for some Halifax shares too. Worth checking out...

Hope this helps!

regularsaver1

if less that £50 they were closed and made dormant

branches wouldn;t be able to bring up the details, so thats why they have bought the forms in