The Disqualification Files

Lenient 5 Year Ban Handed Out to Company Director Who Used Around Two Thirds of His Company’s Barclays Bounce Back Loan for Personal Benefit and Left It Unpaid at Liquidation

It’s a good job they don’t lock up those who have been found to have done some form of wrongdoing relating to a Bounce Back Loan, or prisons would soon be full to overflowing. As it stands, the most someone has to worry about is a disqualification/ban, if they take the insolvency route, such as the Company Director named below who is just starting a 5 year ban for the BBL wrongdoing listed. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Declined a Sole Trader with Two Other BBL’s for His Other Two Businesses a Bounce Back Loan for His Third Business, the Ombudsman Awards Him £200 Compensation For the Upset Caused in Their Delay in Declining That Third Loan

The rules of the BBL scheme did state you could apply for as many Bounce Back Loans as you had separate, trading businesses that were not part of a holding company at the top of the business structure. Here is a recent Ombudsman decision in which Barclays declined a Sole Trader a third BBL for his third business and was ordered to pay him compensation but only for them taking so long to decline his loan and the upset caused. […]

The Disqualification Files

Sole Trader and Company Director Hit with 10 Year Bans for Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoing

As Rishi Sunak has now scuttled off back to obscurity having been trounced by Liz Truss in the recent Conservative Party vote for their new Leader and Prime Minister, the fallout of his Bounce Back Loan scheme is still being played out, and here are two more people now beginning long bans due to all manner of wrongdoing associated with that Government backed loan scheme. […]