To protect yourself from overdraft fees and bounced payments, you want to keep both accounts open at the same time for at least a month, with enough money in each to cover any payments that come in.

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In time they would be found work, such as packing salads, and would then be taken to open bank accounts for their wages to be paid into.

BBC: Roza Urbanowicz