Savings: does your child have a forgotten £1,000 to claim?

Parents may be unaware of, or lost details of, money in the government’s Child Trust Fund

Does your child have as much as £1,000 sitting in an account without knowing it? The government’s now-defunct Child Trust Fund gave newborns from 2002 onwards cash vouchers worth hundreds of pounds – and officials admit that, as the scheme hits its 16th birthday next month, as many as 1m of the 6m funds opened are classed as “addressee gone away”.

So how do you find out if there’s a pot of cash you were unaware of, or have simply forgotten about?

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2MPTPyY