How to find out if someone has bank accounts!

emmared17

My husbands dad died a few weeks ago he used to deal with all my husbands nanas money affairs. My husbands nana is convinced she has a few accounts and thinks she has money in them but as she is nearly 90 and her memory is terrible she doesn't know where or how much as hubby's dad dealt with it all.
How can my husband find out if there are any accounts for her?
She is sure she had a post office account with thousands in but hubby has rang and there's no account in her name.
Is there anywhere that can check if she has accounts anywhere?

beecher2

Have a look here
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/reclaim-lost-assets-free
and
http://www.mylostaccount.org.uk/

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emmared17 wrote: »

she had a post office account

I believe that "post office accounts" as they were became Girobank accounts, some of which got packed off to NS&I, others to what is now Santander (through Alliance and Leicester), and a few to Bank Of Ireland.

Might be worth contacting all of them, in fact the MyLostAccount site will let you contact every single bank in one go - but be prepared for a deluge of 100 letters (one from each bank in the country) telling you that they don't have anything!

That said, I sent a request to every bank a few years back, and found £1.10 in a kids' saver from 1989!

jimjames

Post Office accounts might also be National Savings. They had investment and ordinary accounts operated via the PO network.

olly300

Santander have a habit of saying accounts are closed if they haven't been used for 6 years.

Post office/National Savings will say they can't find you on the system if you don't give them the exact combination of names you opened the account with even if you give them the addresses.

I suggest you go through the late father-in-laws and nana's paperwork to see if there are any evidence of the accounts.