Ombudsman News issue 151

See our previous editions of Ombudsman News.

Covid-19 (coronavirus): our service and getting in touch

With most of our people working remotely, we’re working on existing cases and accepting new complaints. Our phone helpline hours have changed and we can’t currently accept post. We’re updating our website with the latest news.

Covid-19: resolving and preventing complaints

We’re hearing from people who’ve had problems with financial services relating to Covid-19. To help businesses resolve complaints fairly, we’ve set out what we’re seeing and the resources we offer.

Avoiding fraud and scams: help from the ombudsman

We've published some information for consumers about fraud and scams. We explain how consumers can help keep their personal information safe and how we can help with a complaint.

Our half-yearly complaints data

We’ve published our regular data on complaints against named financial businesses that we handled between July and December 2019.

Our plans and budget for 2020/21

We’ve now published our plans and budget for 2020/21. In light of the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve adjusted our funding arrangements to reduce our costs to the businesses we cover.

Our new award limit

On 1 April, the maximum award we can tell businesses to pay rose to £355,000.

Latest news

We’ve published our complaints data from the second half of 2021

13 April 2022

Today we’ve published data showing the number of complaints we received about individual businesses between 1 July and 31 December 2021.

Data and Insight H2 data

Financial Ombudsman Service publishes its plans and budget for 2022/23

30 March 2022

The Financial Ombudsman Service’s plans and budget for 2022/23, published today, sets out our plans to invest in change, reduce the time it takes to resolve cases, to become financially sustainable, and to enable us to deliver a better service for customers.

Press release Strategic plans and budget

Ombudsman News 167

15 December 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of Ombudsman News. In this edition we share our plans and budget consultation for 2022/23, the publication of our action plan to change and improve, and updates to our business interruption insurance content. We highlight our open vacancies and our opening hours over the Christmas period.

Insurance Strategic plans and budget Consultations and responses

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