FOS PPI complaint questionnaire

[dunstonh]

Excuse the formatting as it was pulled from an article just released by money marketing......

The Financial Ombudsman Service is developing a PPI complaint questionnaire for firms to administer to complainants.

The questionnaire, to be developed during the FSA’s consultation period into the assessment and redress of PPI complaints, will help ensure that relevant evidence is provided to firms by consumers complaining about their policy. The consultation paper says: “During the consultation period the FOS will develop a standardised PPI complaint questionnaire for firms to administer to complainants. This will help ensure that relevant evidence is provided to firms by consumers and to consumers by firms, thereby improving firms’ assessment and decisions, as well as helping to ensure that proper investigation of complaints is carried out before any referral to the FOS.”

The FSA says it also hopes the questionnaire will make PPI claims chasers work harder for claimants.

The paper says: “Claims management companies offer to help consumers pursue their complaints with financial services firms and the FOS. In return, the consumer has to pay the company a fee, usually a fixed share of any redress awarded for an upheld complaint.

“The design of a PPI complaint questionnaire will ensure both CMCs and firms do the necessary leg work in setting out and looking into the details of the case, avoiding generic complaints and generic rejections respectively.”
The FSA says the equivalent mortgage endowment questionnaire worked well to this effect.

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reading between the lines it looks like it is being designed to resolve two issues. Those putting in false claims, mainly driven by claims companies and to prevent firms from rejecting what could be totally valid complaints.

[marshallka]

Originally Posted by dunstonh

Excuse the formatting as it was pulled from an article just released by money marketing......

The Financial Ombudsman Service is developing a PPI complaint questionnaire for firms to administer to complainants.

The questionnaire, to be developed during the FSA’s consultation period into the assessment and redress of PPI complaints, will help ensure that relevant evidence is provided to firms by consumers complaining about their policy. The consultation paper says: “During the consultation period the FOS will develop a standardised PPI complaint questionnaire for firms to administer to complainants. This will help ensure that relevant evidence is provided to firms by consumers and to consumers by firms, thereby improving firms’ assessment and decisions, as well as helping to ensure that proper investigation of complaints is carried out before any referral to the FOS.”

The FSA says it also hopes the questionnaire will make PPI claims chasers work harder for claimants.

The paper says: “Claims management companies offer to help consumers pursue their complaints with financial services firms and the FOS. In return, the consumer has to pay the company a fee, usually a fixed share of any redress awarded for an upheld complaint.

“The design of a PPI complaint questionnaire will ensure both CMCs and firms do the necessary leg work in setting out and looking into the details of the case, avoiding generic complaints and generic rejections respectively.”
The FSA says the equivalent mortgage endowment questionnaire worked well to this effect.

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reading between the lines it looks like it is being designed to resolve two issues. Those putting in false claims, mainly driven by claims companies and to prevent firms from rejecting what could be totally valid complaints.

Can't be a bad thing then. Thanks for this,

[di3004]

Interesting, thanks for posting this Dunstonh.

[maxdp]

Thanks for that info Dunstonh

[dunstonh]

Dont know what happened to the title of the thread. It was longer than that! Edited it to reflect subject.