From: "Gaz" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: Disability Living Allowance and Bank Accounts
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:42:48 +0100
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Grommit wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:16:21 GMT, "Tom Bradbury"
>  wrote:
>
>> My mum has recently been awarded DLA, because she's got advanced 
>> dementia.
>> One of the things the guy said from the Dept for Work and Pensions said 
>> when
>> we were filling out the forms was that banks don't like dealing with 
>> people
>> who receive DALE because it suggests they can't handle their money
>> effectively and represent a risk to the bank.  When the bank discover the
>> money is being paid in to an account from DIP, the banks try to close the
>> customers account.  I've never heard of this and would have thought it 
>> would
>> be well known about - but haven't found any truth in the statement.  Can 
>> it
>> be true?  If it is, how does this sit with the Disability Discrimination
>> Act?
>
> Rubbish
> In fact when we moved our account to the Nationwide and the lady saw
> we were receiving DLA and Incapacity benefits she remarked "Youll have
> no trouble getting a loan then"

Indeed, DLA customers are considered credit worthy, especially in the car 
market.

Gaz