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CBC
2 days ago
- Health
- CBC
Senior left in limbo after province pulls essential cheques from mail
An elderly Winnipeg woman's frustration with the Manitoba government has reached a boiling point after the province stopped mailing out essential cheques and told her the only way she could hers is by picking it up downtown. "This program has been in effect as long as I've been on it … and there has never been a problem," 90-year old Evelyn Kenny said. "What caused the NDP to go overboard like this and create such a problem? "I don't understand it. Nobody can give me an answer." The province announced that as of May 26, due to possible strike action at Canada Post, essential mail for those who don't receive direct deposit would be directed to distribution centres for pick up instead. Kenny has used a supplemental oxygen tank daily for about five years. She pays for it upfront and then receives a rebate cheque of $435 every month. When her July cheque didn't show up in the mail, Kenny was told it would not be coming to her Grant Park home and that she would have to get it at the Manitoba Health branch on Carlton Street between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Kenny doesn't drive and with her current medical conditions, says that going downtown to pick up a cheque is not a simple task. "With me on oxygen, and the heavy smoke [from wildfires] I'm told to stay in. And then I got a department telling me, 'Well, it's OK to go downtown and pick up a cheque,' so I'm still in a quandary," she said. "They didn't give any alternative, just go and pick it up." Kenny said she was given no notice that her July cheque would not be coming in the mail. "The only way you found out was when you phoned to ask where your cheque was," she said. "Is that fair to the seniors? I don't think so. It's not the way to treat people." She has still not been able to pick up her July cheque and said her August payment will be coming out soon, so she will soon be out more than $800. Her son drove in from Gimli twice to attempt to pick it up, and was told both times it was not ready to be picked up yet, costing him time, money for fuel, and only adding to the frustration, Kenny said. "It's making my condition worse with stress, and it just feels like I'm fighting this battle all by myself," she said.
Daily Mail
28-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
TONY HETHERINGTON: All 12 cheques I deposited at the Post Office have disappeared
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday's ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. M.H. writes: I am a director of a small agricultural supply business, contacting you in desperation. My firm deposited 12 cheques for Barclays bank – totalling £6,212 – at the local Post Office. They were never credited to our account. I have spoken to the bank every week for the past month and had no support. Tony Hetherington replies: The Barclays branch in your town closed its doors three years ago. Account holders were told to use branches in two nearby towns. Alternatively, Barclays advised: 'Cheques can be deposited at the Post Office. Please allow an extra two days for cheques deposited using a pre-printed paying-in slip to reach your Barclays accounts.' I asked the bank what had gone wrong, and staff told me: 'We're really sorry that a number of cheques paid in by Mr H's company were lost in transit by Royal Mail.' It offered you £200 after acknowledging that you would have to contact the dozen people and firms whose cheques were lost and ask them for replacements. However, a bad situation became worse. You deposited a further 11 cheques at the same Post Office, with a total value of £6,593, and they also failed to reach your Barclays account. I began making inquiries again, and a day later ten of the cheques turned up, leaving just £27 missing. Barclays raised its offer to you to £300, and the bank will also meet any expenses faced by your customers who have to ask their own banks to cancel the missing cheques. I do hope procedures at that Post Office branch are tightened up as well. Vinted and Mangopay keeping my cash Ms T.J. writes: Vinted and Mangopay are refusing to release £27 – the proceeds from items I have sold using their services. I have been asked to complete a Politically Exposed Person questionnaire, which I already did months ago. I am now being asked to supply photographic evidence such as a copy of my passport or driving licence. I refuse to do this, as I don't know why they need such personal information. It seems they are thinking of any way not to release my money. Tony Hetherington replies: For those who do not know it, Vinted is an online business based in Lithuania which acts as a middleman for anyone wanting to sell or buy secondhand clothes and similar items. And Mangopay is a money transfer company based in Luxembourg. I contacted both companies but Mangopay, which is allowed by the Financial Conduct Authority to operate in the UK, failed to offer any comment or explanation at all. Vinted, though, replied quoting a 2004 Luxembourg law dealing with money laundering and terrorist financing! It referred to this as a 'Know Your Customer' procedure that Mangopay must apply. But hang on a moment – surely Mangopay's customer is Vinted, not you? Well, apparently you are really a Mangopay customer. Before putting anything up for sale on Vinted, it seems you should have studied the Lithuanian company's 20 pages of terms and conditions. These reveal that it uses four money transmission firms, all based in different countries. And when you use Vinted, you are automatically enlisted as a customer of one of these firms. This, in turn, means you have to abide by Mangopay's own 21 pages of terms and conditions, which give it every right to cling on to your £27 until you jump through a series of hoops. One of these hoops is that if Mangopay suspects you are a crook, an arms dealer, an international diplomat or a high-flying politician, it can investigate you as a potentially corrupt Politically Exposed Person, rather like a Russian oligarch whose assets might be frozen. The pages of questions issued by Mangopay include asking you whether in the past 12 months you have been a head of state, a supreme court judge, or a general in charge of an army. And even if you answer no to every question, Mangopay warns that simply by returning its questionnaire you are accepting that it can demand further information and documents from you. So, are you as corrupt as a villain from a James Bond movie? And just what did you sell on Vinted to spark Mangopay's suspicions? You told me: 'I'm retired and trying to downsize, selling a few things.' You sold a pair of men's loafers for £8, a dress for £4 and a vintage-style trench coat for £15. As for being a Mangopay customer, you protested: 'I never signed up to be one. If I had been given that option, I would never have signed up to Vinted in the first place.' The Trustpilot review site is full of protests from people in your position. And, just a few weeks ago, my Mail colleague Sarah Vine publicly ditched Vinted after struggling unsuccessfully to get money owed to her. She wrote: 'Well done, Vinted: you've wasted several hours of my few remaining years – and swindled me out of £62.50.' Surprisingly, the online barrier to your account suddenly vanished after I started questioning it. You grabbed your £27 while you could. But it was 'a really quite appalling way to operate a business', you told me. I can hardly disagree.
CTV News
13-06-2025
- CTV News
Sault police charge woman with fraud, forgery
A person is seen writing a cheque in this 2011 file photo. (Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS) A woman wanted by Sault Ste. Marie police for allegedly using stolen cheques to steal money from a person's bank account has been arrested. The fraud unit began the investigation May 31 after a complaint about fraudulent bank withdrawals, police said in a news release Friday. 'An investigation revealed one of the cheques was forged by the accused and fraudulently deposited into the accused's account,' police said. Acting on an arrest warrant, Anishinabek Police Service found and arrested the 47-year-old accused in the nearby community of Garden River First Nation. She is charged with forgery and fraud under $5,000. 'The accused was released on an appearance notice and is scheduled to appear in court Aug.11,' police said.
CTV News
15-05-2025
- CTV News
More than $50K defrauded from Guelph bank
Banks and credit unions advise customers change their PIN every three months. Guelph Police say a fraud scheme targeting a bank in the city has resulted in a $57,000 loss. Cheques, supposedly for a business account, were deposited in the unnamed bank's night deposit box on May 5. Two days later, $57,000 from the account was used to make a purchase. The cheques were later determined to be fake, which led to the bank freezing the account. After a woman tried to withdraw money from the account on Wednesday, police arrested her. A 32-year-old Guelph woman was charged with fraud over $5,000 and uttering a forged document.
