Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-4876167 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£500redress stated in the decision

Fri Jul 26deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Bereavement and power of attorney, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

applying for a Deputyship and a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)Bereavement and power of attorney

Barclays could have done more to helpService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-4876167.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.