{"id":64782,"date":"2017-08-28T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-single-issue-with-halifax-please-accept-both-my-names\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:19:50","slug":"a-single-issue-with-halifax-please-accept-both-my-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-single-issue-with-halifax-please-accept-both-my-names\/","title":{"rendered":"A single issue with Halifax: please accept both my names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAfter getting married I keep my maiden name for work, but now I can\u2019t pay in chequesI am a self-employed barrister and regularly get paid by cheque. I got married earlier this year and decided to continue using my maiden name for professional purposes. However, I am having difficulty paying cheques into my Halifax account because my maiden and married names do not match.I have asked if it would be possible to put a note on my account that cheques in my maiden name should be accepted, or whether to have a separate account for business in my maiden name \u2013 but Halifax says this is impossible.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/aug\/28\/halifax-bank-maiden-name-married-name\" target=\"_blank\">A single issue with Halifax: please accept both my names<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; After getting married I keep my maiden name for work, but now I can\u2019t pay&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-gQS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81900,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-does-halifax-discriminate-when-i-use-my-maiden-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":64782,"position":0},"title":"Why does Halifax discriminate when I use my maiden name?","date":"March 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r After getting married I use my maiden name for work \u2013 but I can\u2019t cash chequesFollowing your item in August 2017, I have experienced the same discrimination from Halifax over the use of my maiden and married surnames. 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