Year: 2026

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

NatWest Cross Default a Customers Bounce Back Loan and Close Her Business Account After Requesting She Pays Back Her Company’s Small Overdraft (Which She Promptly Did) – Ombudsman Says You Can’t Do That and Orders Them to Restore the BBL – View the Rules on Cross Defaults

January 5, 2026

As you will see in the official BBL rules below, that I have had on the website for quite some time, it clearly states “No Cross Defaults”, that rule was used by Louise Bardell, an Ombudsman, to fairly reach an outcome of this case. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

A Customer of RBS Requests a Pay as You Grow Option on Her Company’s Bounce Back Loan But the Bank Sends Her a Link for Another Bank and the Request Obviously Gets Rejected and Full BBL Repayments are Taken – Ombudsman Doesn’t Uphold the Complaint as the Bank Repaid the Payments Taken

January 5, 2026

Here we are years after the BBL Scheme went live and banks are still making the most basic mistakes when it comes to servicing their customers’ requests, read on for the details of this case. […]

BBL Legal Advice
New Year

Watch as a Barclays Boss Explains That If You Over-Egged Your Turnover to Get a Bounce Back Loan from Her Bank and Are Paying it Back or Have Paid it Back, That Won’t Get Classed as Fraud, If You Don’t Repay a Blagged BBL Then It Will Be Classed as Fraud – What a Time to be Alive!

January 4, 2026

As the powers that be get back to work after the Christmas and New Year breaks, many BBL blaggers will soon start receiving letters about their mischief, unless you are repaying a BBL that you blagged from Barclays, for as you will see below, as a boss of the bank says, it won’t be classed a fraud. […]

BBL Jailbirds

Timothy Paul Nel­lis Locked Up for 17 Years and 9 Months for, Amongst Other Things, Blagging £722,000 in Bounce Back Loans His Accom­plice, Sun­deep Chahal, Has Done a Runner and Was Sentenced to 20 Years in His Absence with Accountant Charline Alston Getting an 18 Month Suspended Prison Sentence

January 4, 2026

The judge condemned this as “particularly mean,” noting Nellis had deliberately exploited the nation’s efforts to lessen the economic harm inflicted on businesses and employees by pandemic lockdowns. […]