Elderly Friendly Accounts

Barkin

Interesting.

For 35 quid, I'd have expected something more useful than a photocopy, that I can get from the village shop for a couple of quid... 

Eco_Miser

Barkin said:

Interesting.

For 35 quid, I'd have expected something more useful than a photocopy, that I can get from the village shop for a couple of quid... 

but what's the village shop going to use as an original?

Barkin

Eco_Miser said:

Barkin said:

Interesting.

For 35 quid, I'd have expected something more useful than a photocopy, that I can get from the village shop for a couple of quid... 

but what's the village shop going to use as an original?

In the previous poster's case - agreed, there's no original to copy. 

In my wife's case - she has POA for her father, but he doesn't have the mental capacity to certify a copy himself.
It seems that, should she wish for a "just in case" copy of the LPA, a copy from the village shop would be just as useful as the £35 one from OPG. 

I wonder - if the previous poster were to generate an access code from their online account, whether this would be acceptable to any institution that won't accept a photocopy of the original? 

onomatopoeia99

tealady said:

Another thumbs down for Nationwide.
In order to receive inheritances legatees had to open accounts to have their share paid into. I found the staff I dealt with borderline rude or unhelpful.

My experience was entirely different after my dad died.  I kicked off the process by going into the branch with a death certificate and list of account numbers, the person I spoke to was very helpful tracked them all down and told me there was one more beside, which made sense as there was an ISA that had matured a few months previously and we couldn't figure what had happend to the money, dad wasn't in a good way by then and his record keeping had suffered.  The total was well over their probate threshold, so we had to wait for some other things at that point.

When probate was granted they offered the choice of paying into a Nationwide account or sending a cheque.  I opted for cheque and paid it in to the account I'd set up to collect all the funds.  It would have been more helpful if they could have done a bank transfer, but it only cost a couple of days for the postal system.