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Recipient of Zakaat using interest accumulated in his account

Question: 

If there is accumulated interest in a Zakaat account, then can we leave it there and continue using all the funds as per Zakaat eligibility because the recipients are the same or do we have to remove the interest all the time?

Also, if a person himself is Zakaat eligible and he has accumulated interest in his bank account,   can he himself use that money? 


Answer: 

Disposing of interest

Question: 

I have retired recently and had stopped all my policies I had taken out years ago. I have calculated the capital amount I had actually paid/ contributed all the years and kept that as my personal invested money. The rest I considered as interest as they were unable to verify with certainty where my money was invested.

I now sit with a huge amount of interest which I want to dispose of as follows, but need guidance on whether I am doing it correctly I.t.o. sharia:

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