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Financial Ombudsman decision DRN4545866 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£250redress stated in the decision
—deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Complaint handling

In the Ombudsman’s words

it is required to treat customers in financial difficulty fairlyTreatment in financial difficulty
the confusion caused by the third party regarding whether the settlement offer had been accepted was avoidable and caused Mr and Mrs M distress and inconvenienceComplaint handling

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN4545866.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.