Contact foodbanks?
Did you ever in your life expect to see this advice for customers who have been let down by a banks IT failures?
However, to reassure:
“Our ATMs are unaffected by this technical issue so customers can withdraw cash to make payments."
Only IF their customers cash is accepted by retailers and other businesses!
Emma Reynolds, Economic Secretary to HM Treasury, should be focusing her mind on this story.
IT systems can NEVER be 100% reliable, even if there are NO hackers weaving their mischief.
And if banks are going to claim the solution is that their customers can use cash, it MUST be compulsory that shops and other businesses actually accept that cash.
The public in Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway and Spain already enjoy the legal right to spend their cash, when and where they choose. The Netherlands will pass a law this month giving the same right to their citizens.
The UK government needs to act to give the British public the same right NOW, in 2025.