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  • chels
    chels Posts: 1,287 Forumite
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    schiff wrote: »
    The NINO is needed for banks/building societies to report interest figures to HMRC. It's the only link.

    I thought that but then they don't all ask for it.
  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,379 Forumite
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    schiff wrote: »
    The NINO is needed for banks/building societies to report interest figures to HMRC. It's the only link.

    Fair enough, but I currently have other accounts with other banks, where I know I've never given them my NI number. Though perhaps they have ways of finding it by other means.
    Stompa
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    Stompa wrote: »
    Fair enough, but I currently have other accounts with other banks, where I know I've never given them my NI number. Though perhaps they have ways of finding it by other means.

    It's only been a requirement to collect NI numbers in the last few years. For accounts opened prior to this, HMRC do a data matching exercise with names/addresses/DOB/etc.
  • Fingerbobs
    Fingerbobs Posts: 1,719 Forumite
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    chels wrote: »
    I was told that the paperwork will be sent to me shortly and I will need to send a signed form back with my initial deposit in the form of a personal cheque.

    If all this has to happen, and the initial deposit has to be by cheque, it's cutting it a bit fine for the initial deposit to make it into the account before the end of April.
  • Sea_Shell
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    Hopefully, the account doesn't activate, until the initial cheque is deposited.
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)
  • The Earl Shilton Building Society's RSA (variable 2.00% interest, indefinite life up to max balance £50,000) appears to have recently modified its T&C's, removing some location restrictions cited on the front page of our thread. My apologies if someone has already pointed this out.

    * Now available to UK residents (previously only for local residents).

    * Can now be opened by post (previously only in branch).

    Also, handily, Earl Shilton has some limited online read functionality: the system looks similar to that used by several other building societies. Finally, the ID requirements seem not too much nuisance to comply with.

    Thanks in advance if anyone has feedback to share on service from this small building society.
  • quirkydeptless
    quirkydeptless Posts: 1,225 Forumite
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    Just received a letter this morning for my Monmouthshire account, with a form filled in with the details I entered online, a pre-paid envelope, and a request for a cheque for my opening deposit.


    Quickety slick :cool:
    Retired 1st July 2021.
    This is not investment advice.
    Your money may go "down and up and down and up and down and up and down ... down and up and down and up and down and up and down ... I got all tricked up and came up to this thing, lookin' so fire hot, a twenty out of ten..."
  • solartom
    solartom Posts: 49 Forumite
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    Earl Shilton BS RSA
    2 withdraws are permitted per year
    useful facility
    Mortgage Free 02/02/2024
  • xylophone
    xylophone Posts: 45,734 Forumite
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    Just received a letter this morning for my Monmouthshire account, with a form filled in with the details I entered online, a pre-paid envelope, and a request for a cheque for my opening deposit.

    Same here - very efficient.
  • typistretired
    typistretired Posts: 2,099 Forumite
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    Just received a letter this morning for my Monmouthshire account, with a form filled in with the details I entered online, a pre-paid envelope, and a request for a cheque for my opening deposit.


    Quickety slick :cool:

    So we all might hear around Wednesday. Did the letter say how future payments are made and if there is any online access?
    "Look after your pennies and your pounds will look after themselves"
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