The card was eventually cancelled.
The bank wouldn't speak to us, and she was sulking because she hates admitting that she's made a mistake - so she wouldn't speak to the bank.
The following day they said they could speak to me if she gave them some details and said it was ok for me to speak for her. I tried to get her to read themsome details off her card and she said she couldn't "like she told the bloke on the phone the other day. He wasn't very happy with me. I went and got the card like he said, but I couldn't read the numbers" So who the heck was that???
We have no idea if this event really happened if not - but you have to proceed as if it's real, don't you?
She doesn't know how much money will be coming out, how often, or what for. It's been " the little children", cancer, donkeys and orphanages so far. A different one every time she tells the story.
The neighbours confirm that there were charity chuggers in the area, but they don't know who they were collecting for because they didn't answer the door.
The police don't have enough information to do anything.
We have an appointment to register the POA this week. The earliest available.
This on top of her drawing hundreds of pounds out a month with nobody knowing what on earth she's doing with it is keeping my husband awake at nights. He is grey this week. The stress is making him ill.
Social services can't do anything - she doesn't need someone to help her get out of the bath and meals on wheels wouldn't help.
She gets a lot of charity envelopes through the post, and she treats the "suggested donation" like a bill she must pay. I reckon she's sending them about £400 a month. She has £600 a month coming in.
Social Services say she has capacity to make her own financial decisions, based on their assessment, and she denies that she is doing this. There's no money squirrelled away in the house that we can find.
It's hopeless isn't it?