BBL Complaints

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

TSB Customer Misses Out on a Bounce Back Loan Top-Up Due to Various Reasons Including That Bank Listing an Unmonitored Email Address on Their Website, The Ombudsman Says £75 Compensation is Adequate

September 19, 2022

Whilst TSB are being very, very fair with people who call them up and tell them they cannot repay their Bounce Back Loan with the bank explaining to them how they will claim on the guarantee and not hound them, here is a complaint about them the Ombudsman has just ruled on. […]

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

September 13, 2022

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. […]

All Rishi's Fault

HSBC Finally Confirm to the Ombudsman, When Told By Them to Address a Recent Bounce Back Loan Complaint, Their Feeder Accounts Were Imaginary, As I Did Announce Way Back When the BBL Scheme Went Live

September 10, 2022

Today I present to you a recent HSBC Bounce Back Loan related complaint that the Ombudsman has finally upheld, interesting to see that bank have now finally admitted that their Feeder Accounts, were indeed “imaginary” when the scheme first launched, as I and many of you had suspected at the time. […]

BBL Complaints and Outcomes

Barclays Demanded a Tax Return to Process a Customers BBL Application He Tells the Ombudsman Look It Doesn’t Say That on the British Business Bank Website, Tough Says The Ombudsman They Don’t List All of the Rules and Doesn’t Uphold His Complaint

August 31, 2022

Here we go again, as you will see in this complaint it is another case of the Ombudsman stating the British Business Bank website was not to be relied upon for factual Bounce Back Loan Scheme related rules, and ultimately does not uphold a Barclays BBL related complaint. […]