Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN3915726 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

—deadline 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

ring-fenced money that was transferred into her accountFunds blocked or frozen

Halifax should have done more to communicate why it had taken the action it had to Mrs MComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN3915726.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.