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Lloyd's seem to be blocking payments to Starling
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Looking through my records, I think that would have affected me 11 times in the last 3 months
I think that would make me start to look elsewhere0 -
Agree with Herbalus, don't think that's right. I make monthly payments over £1000 from my Lloyds (through mobile app) to Starling without any issues. Seems they are trying to cover up their error with a convenient excuse. Time to switch IMO!0
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LobsterMemory wrote: »Looking through my records, I think that would have affected me 11 times in the last 3 months
I think that would make me start to look elsewhereI find that a bit difficult to believe. I make transfers of over £500 every single month from my Lloyd’s account. They are all to existing payees but £500 seems a very low amount.0 -
Yep - we had this with Lloyds at the end of April just before our holiday.
I opened a Starling account because of no fees etc while in the US (and it was brilliant), however, before we went, hubby tried to move money into my Starling account.
Like you it was blocked and we were referred to their telephone banking.
Luckily for us (after reading your post), it took about 15 mins of questions etc and warnings from them about Starling before they released it.
We are not UK Mainland but offshore.
As our savings were with Lloyds for the holiday, I didn't want to put it all in Starling in one go, so whilst away i moved money from Lloyds to HSBC then to Starling with no problems - that probably looked dodgier than moving it directly, but because of the problems, we didn't want to have to call their telephone banking for all that hassle because of mobile charges!
It's definitely more a Lloyds issue than other banks.
I also don't have any restrictions on moving money from Lloyds whatever the amount - so I don't know what that's all about!0 -
My partner had the same hassle and in the end closed her account.0
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