Equifax Limited

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5015852 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£300redress stated in the decision

Tue Apr 23deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Credit file reporting, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Miss H complains Equifax Limited incorrectly applied data to her credit report relating to her sister and refused to remove her data from her sister’s credit report.Credit file reporting

Miss H is also unhappy with Equifax’s complaint handling and service in relation to this issue.Complaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5015852.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.