Year + product analysis

Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2019

A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2019, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

8,099 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2019, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

8,099

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

20.7%

1,675 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 31 Dec 2019

Published decisions

8,099

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

20.7%

1,675 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Bank of Scotland Plc

1,764 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Affordability Assessment Failure

838 tagged decisions

Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2019

8,099 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2019. 20.7% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.

Bank of Scotland Plc is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 1,764 published decisions.

  • 2019: 8,099 decisions, 20.7% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure
  • Leading precedent signal: Consumer Credit Act 1974

Firm concentration and issue profile

Bank of Scotland Plc, Financial Insurance Company Limited, Lloyds Bank PLC, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2019. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

affordability assessment failure, non-disclosure or misrepresentation, delay in claim handling, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.

  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 1,764 decisions, 16.0% upheld
  • Financial Insurance Company Limited: 1,133 decisions, 21.5% upheld
  • Lloyds Bank PLC: 931 decisions, 8.9% upheld
  • Barclays Bank UK PLC: 579 decisions, 19.5% upheld
  • Nationwide Building Society: 554 decisions, 25.6% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

The advisory layer for Payment protection insurance (PPI) points to recurring handling implications here, including review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 5.2% of cases), review disp precedent (appears in 5.1% of cases), review icobs precedent (appears in 4.6% of cases), and others.

There is no strong “what loses” signal exposed for this product at the current advisory granularity.

  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN298719231 Dec 2019Not upheld

AXA France IARD · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

This complaint is about a store card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in2004. Mrs L says AXA France mis-sold her the PPI.backgroundIn my provisional decision sent in November 2019 I explained why I didn’t think this complaint should be upheld. I said:‘I’m currently inten... (2 pages)

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DRN357972831 Dec 2019Not upheld

Santander UK Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

This is a complaint that Santander UK Plc mis-sold Mr C payment protection insurance (PPI).backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium PPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 2001. Our adjudicator said the complaint shouldn’t be upheld. Mr C disagreed with the adjudicator’s opinion... (2 pages)

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DRN585540531 Dec 2019Not upheld

AXA France IARD · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

This complaint is about a store card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in2003. Mrs M says AXA France mis-sold her the PPI.backgroundIn my provisional decision sent in November 2019 I explained why I didn’t think this complaint should be upheld. I said:‘AXA France had to m... (2 pages)

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DRN598945631 Dec 2019Not upheld

Bradford & Bingley Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr and Mrs B have complained that Bradford & Bingley Plc mis-sold them a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) policy.backgroundMr and Mrs B took out the policy at the same time as arranging their mortgage in 1995. Although it was a joint mortgage the PPI was set up just to cove... (2 pages)

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DRN636817731 Dec 2019Not upheld

Nationwide Building Society · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

This is a complaint that Nationwide Building Society mis-sold Mr F payment protection insurance (PPI).backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium PPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 1991.Our adjudicator said the complaint shouldn’t be upheld. Mr F disagreed with the adjudicator... (2 pages)

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