Barclays Bank UK PLC

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5058835 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£450redress stated in the decision

Fri Nov 15deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Support for vulnerable customers, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr B says that he is reliant on automated self-service telephone banking because of the difficulties he sometimes faces when speaking due to his chronic health conditions.Support for vulnerable customers

Mr B complains about Barclays Bank UK PLC’s automated self-service telephone banking system.Service failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5058835.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.