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PPS NUMBER needed to cash postal order

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  • 28-07-2012 11:41pm
    #1
    Nova forever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭


    Post offices now ask for your PPS number when you go to cash a postal order. Are the government trying to find out if people on the dole are making lots of money selling stuff on ebay ?


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    #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,533 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    By law they can ask for proof of ID but there's no mention of needing PPS number.

    www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/0485.html

    Payment at Office of Payment
    6. The following rules shall apply to the payment of a Postal
    Money Order otherwise than to a Banker:
    (1) When a Postal Money Order is presented for payment at
    the Office of Payment the person presenting the Postal
    Money Order may be required by An Post to give the name
    of the Remitter and, if required, produce evidence to the
    satisfaction of An Post that he is the Payee of such order
    or a person duly authorised by the Payee to receive the
    amount of the Postal Money Order.
    (2) A receipt for the amount of the Postal Money Order shall
    be signed by the Payee or a person duly authorised to sign
    on his behalf.
    (3) When a Postal Money Order is made payable to a
    company, corporation or society, a receipt given by means
    of a stamp of the name of the company, corporation or
    society or in the name of the officer applying for payment
    shall be a good receipt to An Post.


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    Mitch epitag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Mitch epitag


    The problem is that most paddies seem to fill out postal orders wrong and seem unable to understand how they work.


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    Cushie Butterfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭Cushie Butterfield


    From welfare.ie

    - The PPS No. is intended for use in connection with public services. Individuals should satisfy themselves that anyone who requests or holds a record of their PPS No. is entitled to do so. In any case where there is doubt as to whether a body is legitimately entitled to request or hold the PPS Number, enquiry should be made of Client Identity Services in the Department of Social Protection who will provide answers to any such request. (see Appendix B for some of the bodies using the PPS No.)

    - If you believe that a person asking for your PPS No. is not entitled to do so, do not give them your number until you have contacted Client Identity Services , Department of Social Protection, Shannon Lodge, Dublin Road, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Tel: 01 704 3281 for advice. You can also email us at cis@welfare.ie


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