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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5628486 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Fri Jul 25deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Funds blocked or frozen, Complaint handling
In the Ombudsman’s words
blocked her savings account for several monthsFunds blocked or frozen
NS & I continued to block the account for security reasons, and said that for the same reasons it couldn't deal with Ms J’s complaintsComplaint handling
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5628486.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.