Petition · past parliament

Make Banks legally obliged to pay a proper interest rate to elderly

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Banks move customers with eg ISAs down to a peppercorn rate of interest if they ever are not notified to put the investment into a new account.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

It's not clear what you mean by "a proper rate of interest". You could start a new petition calling for banks to be required to notify their customers before their money is moved to an account with a lower interest rate.

Timeline

20 Jun 2016 Petition opened for signatures
29 Jun 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 29 Jun 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.