{"id":124,"date":"2010-11-29T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/index.php?option=com_wordpress&amp;p=124&amp;Itemid=13"},"modified":"2010-11-29T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:56:10","slug":"opening-personal-bank-accounts-know-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/opening-personal-bank-accounts-know-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Personal Bank Accounts &#8211; Know Your Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThere are many Canadians today that are misinformed of their most basic rights to accessing banking services.<\/p>\n<p>Under Canadian law, you have the right to open a personal bank account. You can open an account even if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t have a job.<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t have money to put in the account right away.<\/li>\n<li>You have been bankrupt.<\/li>\n<li>Banks and Credit Unions cannot refuse your request to open an account unless you have committed a crime, or if you show false ID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many Canadians today that are misinformed of their most basic rights to accessing banking services. Under Canadian law, you have the right to open a personal bank account. You can open an account even if: You don\u2019t have a job. You don\u2019t have money to put in the account right away. You have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/opening-personal-bank-accounts-know-your-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening Personal Bank Accounts &#8211; Know Your Rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,33,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}