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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

NS&I to start contacting bereaved families following missing savings blunder

NS&I has apologised to bereaved families (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

Treasury-backed savings giant NS&I will start contacting the estates of deceased customers next week as it prepares to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds after failures meant that bereaved families were missing out on savings pots.

The savings and Premium Bonds provider, which describes itself as the UK government savings bank, will contact all affected estates with holdings of £10 or more to reunite them with the full value of funds that should have been returned to them earlier.

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