Complaints about PayPal

As part of changes arising from the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, PayPal is withdrawing from our voluntary jurisdiction (VJ).

Our voluntary jurisdiction is a scheme that financial businesses can choose to join in order to allow the Financial Ombudsman to consider complaints about their activities where those activities are not otherwise covered by our compulsory jurisdiction. A financial business who joins our voluntary jurisdiction can also apply to withdraw from it at any time.

When PayPal joined the FCA’s Temporary Permissions Regime, it became subject to the Financial Ombudsman’s compulsory jurisdiction for complaints about services provided into the UK on or after 1 January 2021. PayPal’s withdrawal from the voluntary jurisdiction does not affect an otherwise eligible complainant’s right to complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service about an activity that PayPal undertook after this time.

What this means for making a complaint

If eligible complainants have a complaint about PayPal about events that took place before 1 January 2021, they must send us their complaint before PayPal leaves our voluntary jurisdiction on 1 December 2022, otherwise we may unable to consider the complaint.

This table summarises what this means for making a complaint about PayPal to the Financial Ombudsman:

• Find out more about how to make a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman.
• Find out more detail about our voluntary jurisdiction.