Anyone who holds savings above £500 in a bank will be placed onto a national monitoring register, with their details shared with HMRC, the DWP and the Home Office, under a new government scheme beginning on 1 October.
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- Full FactThis isn’t happening. HMRC told Full Fact that the claim is “completely false”.
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