cash machine usage has jumped as lockdown restrictions have eased at different rates across the UK. Compared with early April, an extra £200 million is now being withdrawn from cash machines across the country per week.
With non-essential retail starting to reopen, 250 ATMs mostly located within sites that were closed due to lockdown are now working again.However, ATM transactions are still only at 70 per cent of where they were just before the crisis, Link said.A consumer survey for Link carried out last month found about two-thirds (65%) of people said they had used cash in the past two weeks - in mid-January the figure was just over half (53%).
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