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Company Director Blags a BBL From Barclays Bank and Another From Starling Bank For the Same Business and Uses the Funds for Personal Benefit and Gets Slapped with a 6 Year Disqualification

January 11, 2022

The rules of the Bounce Back Loan scheme permitted business owners to get a BBL for as many eligible businesses that they owned, and plenty of people did get several BBLs for their separate businesses, one for each. Today’s case however is about a Company Director who got two BBLs for one single business and ended up with a 6-year disqualification. […]

Paul Scully the Small Business Minister Has Told Me to Tell You To Complain To Your MP If the Third-Party Debt Collectors Metro Bank Use Start Pulling Any Stunts With Bounce Back Loan Arrears / Collections

January 11, 2022

I was chatting to someone yesterday who has a Bounce Back Loan from Metro Bank, who wanted to take the PAYG options on their loan. However, Metro Bank informed them they needed to pay one full repayment first as that repayment was in fact due. That customer could not afford to pay it all in one go so a repayment plan […]

A Corporation Tax Return, an Application to Register for VAT, Bank Statements and a VAT Return are Used to Prove Three Company Directors Over-Egged the Turnover of Their Business to Obtain a £50k Starling Bank Bounce Back Loan – All Given 7 Year Disqualifications

January 10, 2022

Here is another case regarding over-egged turnover being used to apply for a Bounce Back Loan, this one involves a BBL from Starling Bank, which resulted in three Directors of a private hire taxi business each getting 7 year disqualifications […]

British Business Bank Say Some Lenders and Intermediates Had Been Promoting the Bounce Back Loan Scheme in a Manner that Breached the Rules and Spirit of the Scheme But HM Treasury State That Is Not True – So Who Is Lying?

January 9, 2022

Today I want you to study the following documents and watch the video and then make up your own mind on whether HM Treasury are telling porkies or whether the British Business Bank are. […]

Co-Operative Bank Approve and Pay Out a Bounce Back Loan to a Customer Then Snatch It Back – Ben the Ombudsman Decides That Is Their Right and £100 Compensation Is Fair

January 8, 2022

It was and still is commonplace for many lenders to snatch back (for all manner of reasons) Bounce Back Loans that they had initially approved and paid out, and today I present to you the outcome of a complaint about a snatched back BBL that was sent to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), was not upheld, and then went before an actual Ombudsman for a determination. Be aware that when you do send in a complaint to the FOS it is a caseworker that […]