Yorkshire Building Society

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN4340198 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Thu Feb 15deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty

In the Ombudsman’s words

Lenders are required to treat those in financial difficulty fairly. Mortgage arrears are a reliable sign of financial difficulty.Treatment in financial difficulty

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN4340198.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.