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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

Ombudsman receives fewer complaints about scams and ‘unaffordable’ lending

The Financial Ombudsman Service processed around 68,000 complaints between April and June, compared with 74,600 new cases in the same period in 2024 (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

The number of complaints about financial firms where the ombudsman was called on to step in has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year, with fewer gripes recorded about issues such as perceived unaffordable lending and fraud.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) said the fall in case numbers has been particularly significant across certain issues.

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