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To: The Financial sector - banks!
Fairness for the 70+'s
Currently we have a current account that we pay HSBC £10 per month for. we do this to gain access to a series of add on benefits such as travel insurance, car breakdown cover, mobile phone cover etc.
However HSBC along with many other have confirmed that at 70 years old they will withdraw the benefits thereby forcing us to leave them after 50+years to go elsewhere.
We are regularly told that we are all living longer and my wife and I look after ourselves health wise. We are both slim, fit and dynamic but HSBC want to abandon us so as to avoid risk. We think that banks should recognise the aging shifts and reflect them in their product offering. We will switch but only because we are being made to.
However HSBC along with many other have confirmed that at 70 years old they will withdraw the benefits thereby forcing us to leave them after 50+years to go elsewhere.
We are regularly told that we are all living longer and my wife and I look after ourselves health wise. We are both slim, fit and dynamic but HSBC want to abandon us so as to avoid risk. We think that banks should recognise the aging shifts and reflect them in their product offering. We will switch but only because we are being made to.
Why is this important?
The population is living longer so more and more people will drop into being 70+. Surely a switch to a 75 year old threshold and then a yearly confirmation of healthy status, would be a much fairer approach!
