If You Become Homeless, Is It Normal For Your Bank To

[Tufty_Toesnake]

freeze your account and/or seize your assets?

The Co-Operative Bank have frozen my account - and this just after they spent a month unable to validate my address (because my former home was on a "new" housing estate - i.e "new" in that it's only been standing for 25 years!)

I've been forced to make myself "homeless" due to a family feud which I shan't go into here.

[ubasses]

Difficult one as every case is individual. Were you a new customer or a long standing one? Did you go in with a change of address or was post returned to them from your previous address marked 'gone away? Banks are obviously very wary of fraud and money laundering and for the latter they have strict regulations to follow. So there are circumstances under which they may take this action.

[Peter Pedant]

er no it isnt .

Go into the branch and have a word with them ?
phone them up ?

when I changed address ( but never homeless ) I have to say the Bank didnt seem to give a t+ss.

Returned post should be sucked into the bank's RTS system, where clerks diligently work night and day to .... yeah you get the message. This would be the first time that a financial house has actually acted on any returned mail in my experience. My experience is wide as a result of defaulting tenants .....

and finally is it a joint account ? The other account holder might have intervened ....

I think someone in your fambly has indulged in some free-lance jiggery-pokery myself.

[EDDIE51]

You have to have a postal address for a bank account. Where are you living now? I agree it looks like a family member is causing trouble for you.