Barclays customer Diane Forrest in Teddington, London, said she was supposed to complete on a house on Friday.
“I sat outside the new house with all belongings in a removal truck for over four hours but no alternative solution could be found,” she told the BBC.
The 61-year-old said she was in a hotel for the weekend and has “several thousand pounds more costs to incur” and “no friends free to help with the [house] removals if they go ahead on Monday”.
Businessman Tim Horner from Petworth, West Sussex said on Saturday he has been unable to pay his staff or HMRC.
He told the BBC that he has had “multiple calls” from people trying to make payments to his ecommerce platform, saying that their payments are “being refused”.
“I have lost thousands of pounds due to my online store being unable to receive payments as we have a Barclays account,” Mr Horner said.
Ruth, 39, a self-employed cleaner, told BBC News she had been trying to access money with her partner from their savings account for several hours so she could buy milk for a baby and food for five other children she is looking after at home.
“We need the money to do shopping, our money is all in savings,” she explained.
“I’ve got my granddaughter here who’s 11 months old, also a one-year-old, two-year-old, 12-year-old, 13-year-old, 15-year-old all at home.”
She said she had been able to get some help from her teenage daughter, but said there could be “many single mums in the same situation with no access to money”.
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qzg92g72o
