Dad died 5 years ago and his estate was sorted by a solicitor. I sold his house & invested a fair bit of money. It was a very stressful time as he'd been ill for a long time and there was only me & DH supporting him. I was in a bit of a fug. But I trusted everything had been done properly.
Completely out of the blue this morning I got a letter from one of the banks he had money in saying one of his savings accounts is still open with a substantial sum still in there. They sent me a form to fill in to verify I'm me and they'll transfer the money over to me. They still have all my details on record, copy of death certificate etc so I know I wasn't the one that cocked up by forgetting to inform them etc.
I was kind of in shock this morning but I rang them and they were super-nice, offering to cover any penalties incurred with HMRC etc. DH says they're being nice because they're probably shitting themselves about me potentially kicking off about lost interest over the 5 years. Do I just take what's owed or should I be kicking off a bit? Like I said, I feel a bit numb about it so I'm not really thinking clearly and not very sure what to do.