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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6032898 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£300redress stated in the decision
Mon Feb 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

NSI shouldn’t have said the funds would bounce back within 15 days during a telephone call. I also note the poor service Mr B received, such as the incorrectly dated and incorrect information in a letterService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-6032898.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.