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Bank of Scotland? Overdraft

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Hope you can help me guys!

Just been off the phone to Bank of Scotland about one of my accounts.

It started off as a budget account for my bills and they changed it to a current account. Anyway the overdraft was set up and has been for about 8 years at £2100, and it has always been in debt every month as it is a budget account.

It looks like I have been charged every month for being in debit in my overdraft, they called it 'interest debit'.

Am I eligible to claim back these so called charges even they say its cause i'm always in my overdraft??

I'm aware if I can - i can only claim back 5 years.

Hope you can help

Thanks

Gary

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  • Beate
    Beate Posts: 3,522 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    You cannot reclaim overdraft interest, sorry, as this is a legitimate interest for using your overdraft, not a punitive charge for bouncing a DD or getting into unauthorised overdraft.
    Reclaimed thanks to this site:
    £175 Abbey Mortgage Repayment Fee, £170.03 Capital One Bank Charges £418.07 Lloyds TSB Bank Charges, £2,671.55 Mis-sold Endowment Policy, all for OH
  • Did you recently post the same story under a different nick?
    There can't be too many people, who have that same "problem".

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=537627
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