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[Angry Cat]

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BBC News - PPI backlog 97% cleared by banks

...Fewer than 6,000 of the backlog are now outstanding.

Margaret Cole of the FSA said: "We are encouraged that most firms have used the time extension to clear the backlog of complaints received during the judicial review."

One wonders just where the FSA obtained or have been provided with the above calculation?

Rubbish and I for one do not buy it!

[The_Big_Dog]

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...Fewer than 6,000 of the backlog are now outstanding.

Margaret Cole of the FSA said: "We are encouraged that most firms have used the time extension to clear the backlog of complaints received during the judicial review."

That is complete bovine excrement! Either that or I'm holding the vast majority of the 6,000 that have yet to be decided.

It's totally disgraceful whats going on here, and I'm beginning to want to walk away from the Claims Industry, which is a shame because I really enjoy what I do, but it's beginning to get a bit much when the Regulator just isn't regulating the market and the consumers it's meant to be protecting.

Margaret Cole is 'encouraged'. Sorry Margaret - what *****ing planet are you on????? You've let banks put hundreds of thousands of claims on hold illegally, given them more time to deal with them, given them extentions to deal with new complaints and they're still putting two fingers in the air at you. Jesus Christ - wake up and smell the coffee woman!

I think the banks are stringing the FSA along here, and unless the FSA are going to intervene, then it's going to carry on - same old tactics by the banks. (In fact, some of them have got worse since losing the JR and we're seeing declines coming in for self employed and pre existing meds for complaints we've put in on behalf of clients after the JR was completed, so it's pretty clear which way the banks want to play).

I think it's because uphold rates have fallen to 55% at the fos - the banks are loving it because now, it's 50/50 whether the complaint gets upheld or not.

Congratulations to the FOS and the FSA - probably the most useless waste of space in the world right now and a total laughing stock.

TBD.

[di30]

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Welcome back TBD.

[TUTTSI]

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Out of interest has anyone here had a payout yet or at least a promise of one?

It does seem rather odd that Margaret Cole from the FSA could make such a ridiculous statement which is more than likely unfounded. I wonder where she gets her information from?

[EXC]

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I think it's because uphold rates have fallen to 55% at the fos - the banks are loving it because now, it's 50/50 whether the complaint gets upheld or not.

To be fair the reason that FOS uphold rates fell to 55% is because of the banks refusal to engage with them during the JR. It wasn't that less complaints were being upheld in relation to those that weren't but in relation to the volume they received and could close. The FOS were at pains to point this out in the 2010/11 annual review and that because banks are now playing ball again, they expect uphold rates to increase accordingly.

[ncf355]

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I complained regards my RBS payout amount

They provided a spreadsheet where (as an example) a payment of £13.66 PPI premium from May 2002 resulted in £1.30(ish) interest payment, this on a card bearing 16% APR (as a rough, and VERY geneerous, average)

[Fortinbras]

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banks are now playing ball again,

Yes, like premiership footballers, feigning injury (Angie's blatherings), ignoring the rules, insulting the referee and taking lots of money home!

Fortinbras

[leclerc]

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Can someone tell me where that information that the BBC has published has actually come from?

[enaid]

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I complained regards my RBS payout amount

They provided a spreadsheet where (as an example) a payment of £13.66 PPI premium from May 2002 resulted in £1.30(ish) interest payment, this on a card bearing 16% APR (as a rough, and VERY geneerous, average)

This was at 8% over 9 yrs?

[ncf355]

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This was at 8% over 9 yrs?

Nope,

that was in a seperate column, this interest I'm talking about is the interest they have paid back that was supposedly the amount charged on the PPI whilst it sat on the card balance

[EXC]

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Can someone tell me where that information that the BBC has published has actually come from?

The figures were circulated to the media by the FSA without publishing them as a press release.

[leclerc]

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The figures were circulated to the media by the FSA without publishing them as a press release.

Oh god! no wonder I couldn't find any link on their site. I found the figures of redress which exclude FOS claims(small print) or 8% or 400 other providers of PPI.

[EXC]

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Oh god! no wonder I couldn't find any link on their site.

Indeed. The Times said the would give the deadline figures when they reported the redress amounts a few days earlier.

''Banks are also scrambling to meet the FSA’s deadline of tonight to write to customers whose cases were put on hold during the legal fight to tell them whether they will receive compensation. The FSA will check whether the banks have met the deadline and may make a statement this week.''

[The_Big_Dog]

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Out of interest has anyone here had a payout yet or at least a promise of one?

It does seem rather odd that Margaret Cole from the FSA could make such a ridiculous statement which is more than likely unfounded. I wonder where she gets her information from?

To be fair Tuttsi, it would be totally misleading of me if I was to say that none of our clients have had payouts, because some have. However, 97% isn't anywhere near my calculations.

I would say as a guesstimate, out of all the complaints that we had put on hold, the following applies:

20% have been resolved and paid out.
30% have had firm settlement offers confirming figures (but no money has changed hands).
30% have an offer to settle, but no figures whatsoever.
and finally, 20% are still awaiting a final response.

I'm very confident of those figures and I'm reasonably sure that most of the CMC's posting on here will agree with me, and the FOS can't deny it either, because we're still getting their 'X Lender wishes to settle as a gesture of goodwill following our involvement letters' on JR hold complaints'.

As you can see - no mention of 97% anywhere - maybe they're getting it mixed up and 97% of everything the FSA and FOS say is total excrement!

As a CMC, I've got 2 huge headaches at the moment (thankfully, paying the mortgage is not one of them anymore, because the 20% of claims that have been paid have taken care of paying the bills), however, I digress. Firstly, it's managing clients expectations. I'm getting more and more calls from clients asking where their settlement is. I've kept all my clients up to date on whats happening, but in the back of my mind, I'm wondering whether the client thinks it's me and I'm not working hard on their behalf and not giving it 100%. Theres so much bad press surrounding CMC's at the moment - it grates me a bit to think that a client believes I'm not giving it my all.

Secondly (and this is the biggest one) - what the hell do I do now with unresolved cases? Sticking a N1 through their door is out, because the majority of claims coming before the Courts are losing, so I'm not going to get any joy with the Judiciary. There's also the issue of issuing on the back of a gesture of goodwill - it won't stack legally - so, Courts out (unless Harrison gets overturned on appeal).

FOS? I've lost total faith in them - their decisions stink to high heaven and theres the ridiculous time it's going to take them to look at it and give a decision. FOS seem to be the lesser of the 2 evils, but I'm not confident using them. I had an Ombudsman decision last week - it's the first one that I've ever lost with an actual Ombudsman - it concerned Capital One and pre existing diabetes. When the client took out the card, the diabetes was controlled by diet, however, still pre-existing. It gradually worsened up to a point our client was medically retired because of it. Cap One denied the claim, however, the Ombudsman didn't see anything wrong with the sale and stated that 'in his opinion, when the card was taken out, the client wouldn't have been aware of any deterioration in his health, therefore, at the time of sale, the policy was suitable for his needs' - totally crazy:tinysmile_aha_t:

Frustration is not the word at the moment! The banks are being allowed to ride roughshod all over everyone and getting away with it. They're the baddies in the Western film shooting up the small town, taking over the saloon and not paying for their drinks. Unfortunately for us, the sheriff (FSA) and his deputy (FOS), are either too incompetent or lazy to get up off their arses and do something about it, or they completely ignore the problem and hope it'll go away quietly - it won't.

TBD.

[EXC]

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To be fair Tuttsi, it would be totally misleading of me if I was to say that none of our clients have had payouts, because some have. However, 97% isn't anywhere near my calculations.

I would say as a guesstimate, out of all the complaints that we had put on hold, the following applies:

20% have been resolved and paid out.
30% have had firm settlement offers confirming figures (but no money has changed hands).
30% have an offer to settle, but no figures whatsoever.
and finally, 20% are still awaiting a final response.

The FSA aren't saying that 97% have had payouts - only that their complaints have been processed. And your 80% of compalints that have been processed isn't a million miles off.