Comparing The Best Child Trust Fund (CTF)
The Government announced earlier this month that the number of children with a Child Trust Fund has reached over 3 million. However, The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Kitty Ussher, also highlighted that only three-quarters of parents have actively opened their Child Trust Fund accounts.
This means that for the seven-hundred and fifty-thousand children whose parents did not open the Child Trust Fund themselves, the opportunity to gain one year’s worth of interest is lost. In fact, the accumulated loss of interest for all those Funds that have not been opened amounts to an estimated £15 million!