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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4700842 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Wed Jun 12deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Charges and fees, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

I don’t think it is appropriate to say that NatWest should refund Mr S’s packaged account fees from when his circumstances changed.Charges and fees
Firstly, I note that Mr S is unhappy with how NatWest dealt with his complaint. Specifically, that NatWest said that it was unable to consider the complaint because Mr S had complained too lateComplaint handling

Rules cited

FCA DISP (Dispute Resolution)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4700842.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.