Have NatWest and RBS been swallowing your cash?

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NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland have announced that they will be compensating hundreds of thousands of customers who have forgotten to take their money from a cash machine, and had it swallowed up by the ATM.

Shockingly, the money wasn't automatically put back into your bank account if it was left in a machine. So what happened to the cash, and will you get your money back?%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%