What Financial Documents can I use for my DBS check?

What Financial Documents can I use for my DBS check?

Please Note: We can't accept more than 1 document from the same institution. For instance, we can accept a Driving Licence issued by the DVLA and a letter from HMRC, but we can't accept a bank statement and mortgage letter from the same bank

Financial Documents are usually considered as Group 2b documents for the purposes of a DBS check. All documents have specific rules around what can or can't be taken set out by the Disclosure and Barring Service and NHS Employers.

The Financial Documents we can accept as a Group 2b document are:

 Mortgage, ISA, Pension and Endowment Statements

- We can accept a Mortgage statement, ISA statement, Pension Statement or an Endowment (Life Insurance) Statement issued within the last 12 months
- We cannot accept:
 - Interest Letters,
 - Summaries of Charges,
 - Pension letters,
 - Other Insurance (for instance, home, car or pet) documents,
 - Single payment advice letters, or
 - Statements regarding unregulated financial investments
- Please be aware we can only accept documents from specific institutions so you may be requested to bring in other documentation.

 Credit Card Statements

- We can accept a Credit Card Statement issued within the last 3 months
- We cannot accept:
 - Statements with no transactions,
 - Summaries of Charges,
 - Interest letters, or
 - Other letters from your Credit Card company such as Product Offer letters (for example, 0% balance transfer offers)

 Bank Statements

We can accept:
 - Posted Bank or Building Society Statements dated within 3 months,
 - Duplicate bank statement dated and posted within the last 3 months by the bank at your request as long as the front cover letter is still attached,
 - Posted Bank or Building Society Loan Statement dated in the last 3 months

If you cannot provide either of these, then we would accept:
 - a Santander, Nationwide or Halifax Bank Statement printed and stamped in branch,
 - an HSBC Bank Statement dated and printed in branch in the last 3 months containing the bank's address and indicating it was printed in branch,
 - a Bank Statement printed in another High Street Bank within the last 3 months. This must also include a note stating "This statement was printed in branch on DD-MM-YY"

We cannot accept:
 - Bank or Building Society letters,
 - Online Bank Statements (such as downloaded PDFs),
 - Statements with no transactions, or
 - Statements from Online-only banks or banks with no branches

 What banks and building societies can you accept Bank or Credit Card Statements from?

- We can only accept bank statements from banks or building societies with physical branches.
- We cannot accept bank statement from online-only banks or building societies with no physical branches.
- For a guide of which banks and building societies we can and can't accept documents from, please see the table below:

To see what else can be accepted as a Group 2b document for a DBS check, see our article What counts as a Group 2b DBS document?