Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3514866 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Mon Aug 01deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Identity checks and access

In the Ombudsman’s words

unable to access funds from his savings accountFunds blocked or frozen

he hadn’t used it for some time. When he tried to reactivate the account in branch, he was told that he didn’t have the necessary identification documents.Identity checks and access

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3514866.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.