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Interest payments when on Benefits

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  • noh
    noh Posts: 5,827 Forumite
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    inspirespirit wrote: »
    gingerfurball... does that mean we are entitled to get them back please?

    No it does not.
  • teffers
    teffers Posts: 698 Forumite
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    The confusion (fuelled by the Bookface curse of sheep mentality) is because banks will often cancel charges if you call them and explain it would cause you hardship to pay them.

    This is often supported by people saying they are on benefits.

    It does not mean they legally aren't able to collect charges from people on benefits, it just means they may remove them as a good-will gesture.

    Usually they only do this once or twice for each customer.
  • Aquamania
    Aquamania Posts: 2,112 Forumite
    noh wrote: »
    No it is not true.


    But it's on facebook. Surely it's all true ... :cool:
  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    teffers wrote: »
    (fuelled by the Bookface curse of sheep mentality)
    Brilliant, love it!! :T
  • Aquamania
    Aquamania Posts: 2,112 Forumite
    inspirespirit wrote: »
    10486001_695813080472453_3295059332143783580_n.jpg

    did it. :T

    Kel 1 m ago

    (when your OP was made over an hour earlier)

    :rotfl:
  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    Aquamania wrote: »
    Kel 1 m ago
    :rotfl:

    (when your OP was made over an hour earlier)
    It was probably a screenshot taken by OP over an hour ago!
  • GingerFurball_2
    GingerFurball_2 Posts: 990 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    inspirespirit wrote: »
    gingerfurball... does that mean we are entitled to get them back please?

    Nope.

    Your bank might refund you them, but there's no entitlement to any refund just because you happen to be on benefits.
    DEBT FREE!

    Debt free by Xmas 2014: £3555.67/£4805.67 (73.99%)
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  • Aquamania
    Aquamania Posts: 2,112 Forumite
    lovinituk wrote: »
    It was probably a screenshot taken by OP over an hour ago!

    Or perhaps it took an hour for the OP to create a new facebook account and send the message to themself. :cool:
  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    Aquamania wrote: »
    Or perhaps it took an hour for the OP to create a new facebook account and send the message to themself. :cool:
    LOL, could be!
  • tomtontom
    tomtontom Posts: 7,929 Forumite
    inspirespirit wrote: »
    It's on a page called 'Fill My Family on a Budget'. A lot of people appear to be getting charges back. They are just ringing up though, and I wondered if there was a particular protocol (if it actually was true, which people here seem to think not. :( )

    photo.php?fbid=695813080472453&set=p.695813080472453&type=1&theater

    It's not true -and I'd take anything written on that page with a pinch of salt, they're not the brightest bunch!
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