Yorkshire Bank PPI Claim - Advice needed

Hi all,

I had a Yorkshire Bank current account in the early to mid 1990's, I cannot remember the exact dates. During the time that I had this bank account, I know that I had a loan and a credit card too.

I completed a PPI Information Request on the Yorkshire Bank website and they sent me the following information:

Loan 1 (account number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

Loan 2 (account number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

Credit Card (card number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

Therefore, my question to this forum is whether I should apply for an SAR or whether I should just go through the standard internal complaints procedure?

Has anyone here received a similar response from Yorkshire Bank (i.e. Unable to determine)?

Any relevant advice would be welcome. Thanks.

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  • dunstonh
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    Therefore, my question to this forum is whether I should apply for an SAR or whether I should just go through the standard internal complaints procedure?

    You only do a SAR if you dont believe they have checked fully.

    If they dont know if you had PPI they will not be able to tell if you were missold something you and they dont know you had. So, a complaint would be futile as they have already told you they cant tell.
    I am an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA). The comments I make are just my opinion and are for discussion purposes only. They are not financial advice and you should not treat them as such. If you feel an area discussed may be relevant to you, then please seek advice from an Independent Financial Adviser local to you.
  • Nasqueron
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    They just mean they don't have any records that prove one way or the other. It's likely a SAR will be pointless but worth a try as it's now free - they will have checked most if not every archive they have dealing with the complaint.

    There is little point complaining about being miss-sold PPI if you don't know if you even had it

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  • sun73
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    Camorra wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I had a Yorkshire Bank current account in the early to mid 1990's, I cannot remember the exact dates. During the time that I had this bank account, I know that I had a loan and a credit card too.

    I completed a PPI Information Request on the Yorkshire Bank website and they sent me the following information:

    Loan 1 (account number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

    Loan 2 (account number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

    Credit Card (card number provided) - Unable to determine if PPI was held.

    Therefore, my question to this forum is whether I should apply for an SAR or whether I should just go through the standard internal complaints procedure?

    Has anyone here received a similar response from Yorkshire Bank (i.e. Unable to determine)?

    Any relevant advice would be welcome. Thanks.

    Do you have the Yorkshire bank account number? The PPI checker searches electronic records back to 1998, so for anything earlier you will need the account number.

    You can try a SAR supplying all your previous addresses with postcodes, see if that produces anything useful, however they will not be able to search their archived microfiche records for statements that might show any direct debit payments to the loan without the account number.
  • Camorra
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    Thanks to all who replied.

    In relation to the bank account number, yes I do have it (they supplied it).
  • sun73
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    That might help. Send a SAR. I got all transactional data from this bank going back to 1984. They can produce statements going back to 1999 before that its transaction lists from their microfiche.
  • Hi, I have had the similar.
    I sent in a request a year ago with no luck. Then I received a letter saying they had found two loans. Account numbers unknown. One had ppi the other is indertermined.
    I put in a complaint butI don't really expect anything as I don't know how they will know how much I paid as they don't have account number!
    What was the outcome of your?
  • [Deleted User]
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    Cazzarocks wrote: »
    I received a letter saying they had found two loans. Account numbers unknown. One had ppi the other is undetermined.
    Old thread.
    The originator of the thread last logged in here during August so you are unlikely to get a reply.

    However, the outcome of his enquiries can have no bearing on yours since the circumstances are not even similar.
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