Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4107570 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£200redress stated in the decision

Tue Jun 06deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Mortgage administration

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr and Mrs D complain that Bank of Scotland plc (trading as Halifax) didn’t offer them support with their mortgage payments when they had financial difficulties.Treatment in financial difficulty

Halifax failed fairly to consider Mrs D’s request to switch to interest only payments.Mortgage administration

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4107570.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.