Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-2437551 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£150redress stated in the decision

Wed Jan 27deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Complaint handling, Bereavement and power of attorney

In the Ombudsman’s words

Barclays didn’t respond to Mr C’s lettersComplaint handling

failed to respond to their letters about the registration of a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)Bereavement and power of attorney

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-2437551.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.