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The amount your app quotes for arrival is not always the amount your family gets. Four things that can quietly take a slice on the way in, and how to send so they do not.

Sending money to the UK from India, Kenya, or Nigeria is not the mirror of sending the other way. The rule on your side, the apps that work reverse, and what the money looks like when it lands.

The SMS is a receipt, not the money. The money is what leaves the agent’s booth after the cash-out fee. A plain map of what mobile-money unbanking costs the family, country by country.

In some countries sending dollars gets your family more money than the app’s local-currency delivery. In others it costs them twice. A plain map of which is which, country by country, and why.

You have moved to the UK. Your money has not. The order to move it in so the bank does not freeze it, the apps do not choke, and HMRC does not follow it.

The wallet balance looks like a bank balance. It is not always the same thing. A plain map of what protects the money in each country, and where the wallet is not the place for the family’s savings.

Your app says cancelled or refunded, but the money is not back. Where it is right now, how long the return leg takes, and which support owns it.

Your app says the transfer is complete, but the money has not arrived. What “complete” really means, the checks that solve it, and which side to write to.

The name did not match on your transfer. What “close match” and “no match” actually mean, what to do at the send screen, and what to do if the money already left.

You paid the wrong account. What your bank can actually do, what it cannot, and the first-hour steps that give the money the best chance of coming back.