Is salary source of funds: the short version

Settling "Is salary source of funds?" means knowing which question is being asked. Money goes in with almost no questions and comes out with several, and that asymmetry catches most people at their first withdrawal. A casino is obliged to know who it is paying, where that person lives and where the money being staked came from, and it usually asks at the moment it is about to pay rather than when the account opened. Knowing which three checks exist, and what satisfies each, turns a stalled payout into a short errand.

The identity check is the simplest. A government document with a photograph, a full name and a date of birth settles it: a passport, a driving licence or a national identity card. The name on it has to match the name on the account exactly, which is where most rejections come from — a shortened first name, a maiden name, a middle name present in one place and absent in the other. Photographs of a document are read by a person or a machine, so the corners have to be in frame and the text legible rather than washed out by a flash.

Proof of address is the second, and the document that satisfies it is dated. A council letter, a bank statement or a utility bill from the last three months carries a name and an address on the same page, which is the whole point of it; a bill from last year does not. Screenshots of online banking usually pass where they show the bank's name, the account holder and the address together, and fail where they show only a balance.

  • Proof of address dated within three months
  • Identity: a photographic document, name matching the account
  • Salary, pension and a house sale as ordinary answers
  • When each check arrives, and why the third comes late

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