Newcastle Building Society

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6002117 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Mon Jan 05deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

NBS blocked her LISA as a precautionary measureFunds blocked or frozen

NBS hadn’t told Miss H when it blocked her LISA that this would prevent deposits, as well as withdrawals, from being madeService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-6002117.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.