Mail meant for my Hotmail account not coming through to my Outlook inbox – can’t find anywhere to access hotmail

I recently upgraded to Outlook (or was forced to, rather!) from Hotmail, I was under the impression that it was simply the interface that changed not the destination or accessibility of the mail sent for my Hotmail account. Is this correct?

Since I've upgraded, I thought that I would continue receiving said mail from various places i.e. if I buy something online where I was already signed up with my hotmail account, the receipt or ticket would come through to the new inbox?

I don't seem to be able to access my hotmail account - even when I go into the Outlook security settings and try to verify my hotmail account it says it has sent the verification code to my hotmail email address - which I cannot for the life of me find to sign into!!!

I'm totally baffled and would really like some help (not to mention access to the plane tickets and concert tickets etc that I have bought via my hotmail account!!!!)

Have tried restoring mail but there is no mail to restore and no new mail is incoming.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paige