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Maiden name on a cheque
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Santander let me pay in a cheque made out to my maiden name fifteen years after I got married! It was from an elderly aunt who simply couldn't remember my married name and wrote down the only one she could remember.
She lived some distance away so getting her to change it would've been a faff. I took it into the branch first to see if they would do it. Luckily I've banked with them for years so they had a record of it on their system.
They did say don't do it again though :rotfl:0 -
Or you could just get it paid directly into your bank account which would be a lot quicker...0
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I have my own account in my maiden name and my joint account in married name, both flag up on credit reports and don't seem to cause me problems xxx0
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PeonySugar wrote: »Or you could just get it paid directly into your bank account which would be a lot quicker...
Depends on whether or not it's a PAYE refund. HMRC only do bank transfers for Self Assessment. If you are on PAYE and request it be paid into your bank account they will send a cheque to your bank with details of the account to pay it into. No quicker I'm afraid.0 -
19lottie82 wrote: »I'm with BOS, have been married over a year and they still let me pay in cheques in my maiden name. I just need to print and sign both names on the back.
Just shows you. My daughter in law was told it could possibly be paid in but wouldn't go through clearing.0 -
Just shows you. My daughter in law was told it could possibly be paid in but wouldn't go through clearing.
Maybe in theory!
But I recently got married and paid the cheques in my maiden name into the bank before changing my name on my single and joint account with Halifax.
I then paid a cheque in my husband's own name, and one in our new joint names, supposedly into our joint account. But Halifax paid them both into my single account. And they cleared. Go figure?!
(I did then move the money into the joint account, think OH would have noticed if not!)Excuse any mis-spelt replies, there's probably a cat sat on the keyboard0
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