Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3040538 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

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Fri Oct 08deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Charges and fees

In the Ombudsman’s words

Halifax should have realised that Mr K’s overdraft had become unsustainable for him in January 2016 and so it needed to refund all the interest, fees and chargesTreatment in financial difficulty

Halifax will be familiar with all the rules, regulations and good industry practice we consider when looking at whether a bank treated a customer fairly and reasonably when applying overdraft charges.Charges and fees

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3040538.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.