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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5018493 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£150redress stated in the decision
Wed Oct 30deadline to accept (not the decision date)

The Ombudsman does not print a decision date. The date above is the deadline the consumer was given to accept or reject the decision, which is set about a month after it was issued. It is reliable to the year, not to the month.

What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

Halifax had closed an interest paying account earlier than should have been the caseAccount closed or refused
Mr G is unhappy with several aspects of the service that Bank of Scotland plc, trading as Halifax, have provided to him, including how they’ve handled his complaint.Complaint handling

Rules cited

FCA DISP (Dispute Resolution)

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5018493.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.