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Bit of a long shot I know. Basically Lasting Power of Attorney has been registered with the OPG. To purchase one certified copy, it is £25.
Question is how likely is it that authorities (ie local Council, bank, building society, pension fund etc) will actually require the certified copy to keep hold of. In other words, does hundreds of pounds have to be spent in case they do?
Thank you so much. 🙂
(an exasperated C_G who really should have paid £600 to a solicitor instead of trying to do it herself).
can you not get your bank or other official to certify the document for you for free?
Thanks for replying. People apparently don't do anything for nothing. Even the GP charged £150 for signing the form!
Just wondering whether to purchase a "job lot" as it were as I assume a photocopy will not be sufficient.
I know it's not much help now cg but i did my dads through a solicitor .After that every time it was needed it was really straightforward .Can't remember how much it was but certainly nowhere near £600 .
How he went in later years it was well worth it as it turned out .
When we provide Office Copies of death certs at work we say 'for noting and return' - maybe you could try that?
oldfart - unfortunately we picked the wrong time to do all this originally, just as a new system was brought in. I obviously wanted my mother to save money so I volunteered. Managed to do one, hurrah, but not the second. Am currently involved in a complaint against the OPG and am pushing for fee to be reimbursed, due to their incompetence.
Karin - really trying to get correct paperwork in order but may have to go to solicitor again. I'm done with fighting, this is upsetting enough as it is.
Thanks for replies though. 🙂
In my former (non-)existance as a Civil Servant, we used to take photo-copies of documents, rubber stamp and sign the photocopy as a "certified true copy", stick that in the file, then return the original to whoever sent it in. TBH, I can't remember whether PoA's were treated any differently, but I don't think they were. I suppose private institutions like banks etc. may have different rules.
No definite answer but my Dad has been going through the process of notifying banks etc. about his PoA for my Grandad. In some cases a photocopy has been good enough. Where it hasn't and they've needed to see the real thing it's always been sent and returned Signed for post.
Nowhere has needed to keep a real copy (yet) and I see no reason why they would. But logic doesn't always apply!