Emergency & Crisis Preparedness
For you or your family, travelling or at home. Use Cash Stash as an emergency money reserve for you or your family, travelling or at home: funds held in your own wallet and released by rules you set.
Where it helps
- Bank or card outages: money in your Cash Stash wallet does not depend on one high-street bank.
- Evacuation or a lost wallet: your reserve can be reached from any phone or browser.
- Being unreachable: if you are travelling, in hospital or out of contact, rules such as missed check-ins and trusted-contact confirmation can pass money and instructions to your family.
Where it does not help
In a full power cut or mobile and internet blackout, no website or app works. Keep some physical cash at home as official emergency guidance advises.
Get ready
- Open an account and create a wallet.
- Add funds and choose a fallback person.
- Set rules for who receives what, and add trusted contacts.
- Optionally let a family member request emergency funds: you get 24 or 48 hours to stop it, then they receive the money and your Crisis Information Pack (survival notes and where documents are kept).
- Print your Emergency Kit card and keep it with your grab-bag.