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Child Trust Fund & JISA

rdc_wwfc · 2022-06-19 13:38:51

When my daughter was born in 2010 we setup a Child Trust fund with Yorkshire Building Society for my daughter claiming the government voucher (I think £50). When she got a little older, we setup a Junior Cash account for her, and started paying money in regularly, completely forgetting that we had the old trust fund. When…

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xylophone Posts: 45,964 Forumite

23 June 2022 at 10:16AM

I've not got experience of this myself, but I figured contacting the HMRC directly would be the quickest way to resolve the problem and would cut out the middle-man, as that's probably all the Halifax would do anyway.
Assuming that the "cash account" is a Halifax JISA, I am wondering whether there is specific guidance for the JISA manager as to how to regularise the situation?

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