Gran hits HMRC Lottery Jackpot !

[olddutch]

The Mirror reports Gran “ Elizabeth Jenkins, 86, had phoned HM Revenue and Customs after noticing they had wrongly taken £33 from her account and they promised to send a refund.

She had not had it six months later so she phoned again and was told a cheque had been sent - and cashed. Records showed it had been sent to "J. O'Brien" at the wrong address so officials promised to send another cheque.

But Mrs Jenkins, a widowed mum-of-two, was stunned when a cheque for £1,511,533.80p landed on her doormat. The retired civil servant from Bournemouth, Dorset, has not cashed it - but despite more calls to the tax office has still not had one for the correct amount.

She said: "I'm sure that if the roles were reversed and I had owed them money for over a year I'd probably be in jail now. They would hound me and hound me until I paid it back. So I'm going to hound them."

Any suggestions to help Gran out in her predicament ?

[Halifaxmum]

Cash it and enjoy it !!!
As long as you have done your best to try and ensure it is correct, then there is no fault on your part.
They are all f@@kwits!

[BertiWooster]

Open a savings account with it - by the time they ask for it back , she should have earned a bit more than the £ 33 , in interest

[olddutch]

Halifaxmum - very tempting

good thinking Bertie

[flip_flop]

Halifaxmum is wrong. If she cashed it and enjoyed it, regardless of bringing their mistake to their attention, there is fault on her part because she would be spending (or to put it another way - stealing) money that doesn't belong to her.

[daffy654]

She is well within her rights to bank the cheque in a high interest account though as bertie suggested. As long as she doesn't spend any of the original amount the interest on it would be hers to spend as she wishes.

[flip_flop]

Indeed