BLOODY NATWEST

[ailbhe]

OK, there's a reason we moved all our accounts away from them - though they are STILL REFUSING TO CLOSE THEM DAMMIT - and one part of that reason arrived in today's post.

I filled in an ISA transfer form in 2008 and moved my ISA from NatWest to the Cooperative Bank. But SURPRIZE they actually just transferred the funds over and didn't transfer the entitlement to an ISA itself, so I have TWO extant ISAs and although I only saved the limit of £3,000 that year it was in £1200 to NatWest, transferred to Co-op making another £1200, and £1800 to the Co-op direct.

Luckily it's small enough beer, my nonexistent £1200, that the tax people aren't going to do anything other than write me a warning note. But bloody hell, I am so DONE WITH THAT. I have no idea how to make NatWest close my accounts but I think it might involve waiting for my passport to arrive and going into the branch and refusing to leave until I see paperwork showing them all to be closed.

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[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I more or less did that with some solicitors here. They're holding the deeds to our house in their safe. I'd tried for ages to get someone, in writing, to actually confirm this rather than just on the phone.

In the end I went down there and asked to see the person in question. "Oh, she's at lunch" I was told, at which I got a book out of my bag, sat down and said "that's OK, I can wait". She appeared 5 minutes later, I got the bit of paper I wanted and all was good.