The Financial Services Authority announced that the FSCS compensation limit for deposits is increasing to
£50,000 with effect from 7 October 2008.The new limit will apply to each depositor for the total of deposits they hold with an organisation regardless of how many accounts they hold or whether they are a single or joint account holder. In the case of a joint account, FSCS will assume that the money in the account is split equally between account holders, unless evidence shows otherwise.
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