Access to banking services as an appointee
duncan_ayre
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My adult daughter does not have capacity to manage her own affairs. My wife is an appointee under dwp appointee ship scheme. The court of protection gave us deputyship for welfare , but not for finance, because her only income is her benefits so there is no need.
the problem is that her account is not manageable with the banking restrictions imposed upon us. We are not allowed online banking for her account. And now with the onset of dual factor authentication for everybody, she will be unable to use her debit card in shops and online as this cannot be set up without online banking.
the problem is that her account is not manageable with the banking restrictions imposed upon us. We are not allowed online banking for her account. And now with the onset of dual factor authentication for everybody, she will be unable to use her debit card in shops and online as this cannot be set up without online banking.
We feel her (my wife’s) access to banking is unfair and discriminatory. Are we the only ones in this position?
Other than returning to the court of protection to gain deputyship for finance is there anything we can do?
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Hi and welcome
I'm sorry I dont have any idea of an answer
Have you spoken to her bank ?
Maybe cab can give some help
Hopefully other members can help -
Have to agree with the above post, once done you will have a letter from the court to show the bank when you apply for access and looking after your daughter’s financial affairs.
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Thanks. That is what we thought. But there should be an awful lot of appointees turning to the cop in the next few months. It’s the dwp that should be changing the rules to allow online banking for appointees.
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janer1967 said:Hi and welcome
I'm sorry I dont have any idea of an answer
Have you spoken to her bank ?
Maybe cab can give some help
Hopefully other members can help
I think it could be called just that a bank mandate as I just googled it, think there's certain things that can be done like taking complete control of the bank account or just viewing it depending on whats on the form maybe I'm not exactly certain -
So we have resolved this following advice from citizens advice.So simple. Set up a new bank account under the appointees name. Tell dwp to make payments to this account. Close the old account.Appointee can now access account as if it is her own. No need for visit to family court. Appointee has debit card on new account and can view account online. All our issues resolved.
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Thanks for the update @duncan_ayre I'm glad you managed to get it sorted!
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