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technical notes

- for businesses and consumer advisers

quick guides to ...

our series of factsheets giving a quick and informal overview of a range of technical issues - from case fees to calculating redress

telling consumers about the Financial Ombudsman Service

online consumer credit resource

a collection of online documents, reference materials and links, that give more background to our role in settling consumer-credit disputes

online PPI resource

a collection of online documents, reference materials and links, that give more background to our role in settling complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI)

online mortgage endowment resource

a collection of online documents and reference materials that outline the general approach taken by the Financial Ombudsman Service on mortgage endowment complaints

compensation for distress, inconvenience or other non-financial loss

complaints data

statistics about the complaints referred to the ombudsman service – showing the number we receive and the proportion we uphold – together with notes for financial businesses on the practicalities involved in our publishing business-specific complaints data

motor insurance: vehicle valuation

buildings insurance: damage to underground pipes made from pitch-fibre

is compensation taxable?

explaining, in broad terms, our understanding of some general principles relating to the tax treatment of compensation that we award

assumptions for redress in pension mis-sale cases that fall outside the Pensions Review

complaints that the interest rate on a savings account is too low

redress for mortgage underfunding

index of documents relating to "splits" complaints

documents and decisions relating to our work on settling disputes involving "splits"

index of documents relating to Equitable Life complaints

adjudications, ombudsman decisions, counsels' opinions and other documents - that relate to our work on settling disputes involving Equitable Life