"Mike_B" wrote in message
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> In message <64nsqaF2akjqaU1@mid.individual.net>, "tim (not at home)"
> writes
>
>>The point is that, most of us find this figure not believable.
>>
>
> "Most of us" don't find it at all difficult. 2 or three of you are
> refusing to believe it because that world falls outside of your own
> experience, but that is hardly the same thing.
>
>>It is almost certainly the result of a qualified report and the CAB have
>>missed off the qualification from their summary, or from a very old report
>>which pre-dated the payment of benefits into Bank Accounts.
>>
>>Other people have already posted alternative reports which show this
>>figure of 1 in 12 to be wildly inaccurate.
>
> They have? I must have missed that.
Then I suggest that you go back and look.
One of them stated that the headline figure they used was of "low income
households" only and the other showed that 50% of the "non-current account
owners" had a savings account. ISTM that a savings account satisfies the
test of "having any type of bank account".
tim
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