Savings and the accounts they are, well, saved in are a massive deal. They are the things that individuals put their trust in to see that their financial future, and the financial future of their family and children, is as strong and as stress-free as can be.
It is for this reason, then, why savings accounts must be protected at all times. Specifically, it is for this reason why the money within them must be protected at all times and stopped from falling into the wrong hands.
For advice on how to safeguard your savings fervently, make sure to read on.
Always have a clear understanding of who provides you with your savings account
Simply, you must know as much as you can about the provider of your savings account as well as where they are saving your money, how they are saving it and exactly what kinds of interest is being attached to it. Even if this means going out of your way to do extensive research on the matter because you have taken out various accounts across many providers, simply do it.
Specially, things that you should be looking out for and researching about your provider and the savings account or ISA that they have provided you include if they abide by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FCSC), who actually owns them and the rest of their banking branches and whether they offer any sort of offshore initiatives. First of all, knowing if your provider is a bank that adheres to the FCSC is pivotal because this could be the deciding factor in you protecting your savings should the bank, for whatever reason, fail and face a crisis or even closure — also, there are limits to FCSCs, so make sure you know what your bank’s limit is. Second of all, knowing as much as you can about who or what actually owns the bank that has provided you with your savings account is as equally an important thing to do because it allows you to go direct to the source should a financial crisis regarding them occur; because the banking landscape is always in a state of change and different banks are always either buying each other or merging together, keeping up with the company that owns yours is a tough task but an important task nonetheless. Finally, knowing what your provider’s stance on offshore banking is is also an imperative thing to do as they make banks far easier to tap into, and your savings provider being tapped into would never bode well for any savings you have stored away with them
So, make sure you always have a clear understanding of exactly who it is that is saving your money and playing such an important role in your financial life. Not doing so will surely spell some sort of disaster somewhere down the line.
Always make sure your savings are as safeguarded as they can be from thievery
Of course, straight up thievery and burglary should still be your main cause for concern when it comes to safeguarding your savings and your financial life in general. Yes, thievery still poses, as it always has done and probably always will do, the biggest threat to the money that we stack and save. So, make sure your savings are not only safeguarded against it in as fervent a fashion as possible, but make sure they are safeguarded against at all conceivable moments (because thieves don’t sleep).
The first that you should do to deter all of those reprobates out there that are desperate to get their grubby hands on your savings is to make absolute sure that all of your personal data, which also means any innocuous documents that may contain even the slightest hint of your personal data, is either as protected as it can be at all times or is destroyed as soon as it becomes futile. You need to do this because in the technologically enhanced world that we live in, plus the fact that so many people (even low life thieves) are so gifted when it comes to using modern technology, there are always going to be ways for your data to be used and subsequently there are always going to be ways for your savings accounts to be broken into. For instance, if your data were to be made accessible to a thief that is well versed in identity theft then your identity could be and would be tapped into in the blink of an eye; if this were to happen, who would there to be stop the thief running riot with your identity and drawing out all of your saved money? So, with all that being said, just make sure all of your personal data is never made accessible to anyone other than yourself or others that your wholeheartedly trust to not abuse it — this means doing things like keeping the devices that store your data safe at all times and this means shredding documents that contain pieces of vital information regarding your data, to name just a few.
Something else that you should do to deter thieves that may be sniffing around your savings pot as best you can is to never flaunt the fact that you actually have a savings account and to never flaunt any money that you withdraw from it. Doing so by, say, mentioning your financial capabilities online via social media, will make you and your saved money an easy target for thieves. So, fight that urge to flaunt and keep ALL information about your saved money on a need-to-know basis!
Always make sure your savings are protected from lawful taking.
The straight up and direct stealing of your savings from low-life criminals isn’t the only type of thievery that you should be safeguarding your savings against. No, something else that you need to be protecting your savings from is what is known as lawful taking. This kind of taking, which is not deemed illegal but still consists of your money being taken and then falling into the wrong hands, simply involves your money being taken by your government. Yes, this happens, and therefore your savings accounts need to be protected against it.
One area of personal finance and the world of savings accounts in which lawful taking is rife is that that takes places after a saver has passed. Yes, after an individual who had a savings account in their life and managed to accrue a great amount of saved money within it passes there is always going to be a chance that his or her local government will try to lawfully take the money and put it back into the state. And, as previously mentioned, this is completely legal — but, legal or not, would you want it happening to you? Would you want your hard-saved money to end up in the hands of anybody but the family and loves ones, or even the charity of your choosing, that you leave behind? No, you wouldn’t, so you need to protect your savings against this lawful taking after your passing by writing out your will before you do pass. Yes, writing your will is the best way to protect your savings from beyond the grave because it will stand as a legally bound document drawn up with your permission and in your honour to dictate exactly where you want your money to be going. So, make sure you do it! And, if doing it seems like too daunting a task for you then make sure to get in touch with a professional will writing company, such as Legacy Wills, who will help you every step of the way in regards to it. Seriously, those that you leave behind in life will thank you if you do.
Saving your savings from falling into the wrong hands is something that you should always be trying your best to do, so make sure that is the case!
