This might be of interest to those of you in Canada that still use your UK bank accounts. In particular, those of you with kids!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm

Shocking. Probably drives some posters mad.

Yeah, but now we are all here, we told Child Benefit people ages ago that we left and we didn't want any of their money anymore, didn't we?! So they would have speedily and efficiently amended their records, and wouldn't want to trouble us again with any superfluous, tedious old cock-ups, would they?

It could make you mad, though ....

You bet I'm mad! :curse: I tried calling the HMRC/child allowance peeps yesterday but not surprisingly they were experiencing high volumes of calls

I can't believe the incompetence of the HMRC! Gordon Brown now says that he's ordering security checks to take place on all government departments (a bit like locking the gate after the horse has bolted). Luckily my CA isn't paid into our current account, but a separate one. However, I was in the process of changing the account even before this fiasco came to light.

Even though I'm now at a bigger risk of fraud, I'm more concerned about my kids personal details being 'somewhere' out there and they still can't find any of the discs.

And they want us to have ID cards in the UK! .......... *rolls eyes*

Today I feel like Father Jack from Father Ted "I'm still stuck on that ******* island"

What for? Did you think your call would make them un-lose the disks?

LOL! Of course not, but I'm more at risk of fraud and so is my 17 year old son from what I just read on the BBC website. I have every right to be annoyed and concerned!

I quote from the BBC website:

"Children aged 15 to 17 whose names, addresses and dates of birth were among the lost data are at risk from determined fraudsters prepared to wait for lengthy periods before using the data, Experian said.

The fraudsters will wait until they turn 18 and start applying for loans, credit cards, mobile phone contracts and other credit products in their names, Ms Lord suggested".

It's not clever, that's for sure. Over here it's usually the banks that lose disks of customer information though medical records also get lost.