There's currently over £1.7 billion sitting in mature Child Trust Funds belonging to over 900,000 mainly low-income young adults throughout the UK who don't know anything about their good fortune. Linking these accounts to their rightful owners is seeing far too little action at present: Andrew Griffith MP, Economic Secretary to HM Treasury recently dismissed Child Trust Funds as an 'old scheme'. In fact it's anything but — like a crop ready for harvesting, this is the time to link these accounts, and the current focus from the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee will certainly help. Public Accounts Committee Hearing on 18th May 23

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