Newcastle Building Society

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5306153 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Tue Mar 04deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Payment delayed or failed, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

didn’t provide prompt access to funds in its savings account when withdrawals were requestedPayment delayed or failed

Manchester’s lack of action over this is part of why Mr F then decided to close M’s account altogetherService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5306153.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.