Old Portman accounts

39sparkle

How do you get old Portman instant access savings account application forms or find out about them.
Trying to find out if you add someone to this account when u already have a account by yourself ,do they go on as a joint account holder or as a signitory. Was there more than one form for different ways of adding someone or is it just one . Was there a separate joint application forms ?.
Did this type of account come with survivorship rules if it was a joint savings .
If it was just adding someone on it does this give them survivorship also ?
Ty

bigadaj

If you mean Portman building society then they were taken over by nationwide nearly ten years ago.

If you have an old account the this will have become a nationwide account so contact them for details.

planteria

agreed.
Nationwide Building Society are the organisation you need to contact.
take as much information as you can to a branch, and ask them to track the account.

Kernel_Sanders

I've had to read the OP 3 times to try and fathom what the heck s/he's asking! As they can't have used it for a decade, I suspect OP's trying to discover whether an ex-spouse/partner went off with all of the £200 demutualization bonus that might've paid out. Or possibly partner has now died leaving a forgotten passbook?

39sparkle

What I was asking was. A person had a portman savings account and then added another person to it. It wasn't turned into a joint account.
When the portman merged with nationwide they automatically turned this account into a joint account . When the person was added to the account in portman this would not of given them survivorship rights as it is NOT a joint account. It was not a joint account till it moved to nationwide.
I want to know how someone can be added onto a savings account with same account number(new account would of been opened if it was a joint account in portman ) to then be added as a joint account holder on nationwide when it wasn't a joint account in the first place . How can I get this information ?

pmduk

You ask the Nationwide if the have any staff familiar with Portman accounts.

DCFC79

39sparkle wrote: »

What I was asking was. A person had a portman savings account and then added another person to it. It wasn't turned into a joint account.
When the portman merged with nationwide they automatically turned this account into a joint account . When the person was added to the account in portman this would not of given them survivorship rights as it is NOT a joint account. It was not a joint account till it moved to nationwide.
I want to know how someone can be added onto a savings account with same account number(new account would of been opened if it was a joint account in portman ) to then be added as a joint account holder on nationwide when it wasn't a joint account in the first place . How can I get this information ?

Write to them ?

planteria

how is another person 'added to an account' other than it becoming a 'joint account'?
does a second person become a beneficiary?

EarthBoy

I don't think you can add a second person to a savings account unless it's a joint account. Extra signatories are usually only for business accounts.

But, in any case, this was nine years ago (August 2007) so the Nationwide are unlikely to still have any record of what happened. It was up to the account holder to query it at the time if they were unhappy with it, they can't wait nine years and challenge it now. If it isn't/wasn't your account then Nationwide wouldn't tell you anything anyway, as it's nothing to do with you.

planteria

that all sounds right to me