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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5954572 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
—no sum stated
Tue Mar 03deadline 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

Halifax has also said that it might have been able to do something different had it known earlier that Miss W’s mother had a disability that meant going into branch wasn’t easySupport for vulnerable customers
complaining about the time and effort it took to get Bank of Scotland plc trading as Halifax to transfer her junior ISA to another providerService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5954572.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.