Nearly 2,000 customers a day complain about Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Banking Group received nearly 2,000 complaints a day from disgruntled customers during the first half of the year, figures showed today.

The part-nationalised bank received a total of 288,717 complaints during the six months to the end of June – the equivalent of 1,850 each working day.

But it closed more than three times as many complaints as it received at 715,458, after the end of a test case on unauthorised overdraft charges enabled it to deal with complaints on the issue that had been put on hold.

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Lloyds TSB received the highest number of complaints for any brand in the group, with 103,686 people contacting it over banking problems during the six months, while it also closed 348,700 cases relating to disputes on the issue.

But the group only upheld 12 per cent of complaints on banking, although it pointed out that the figure was distorted by the high number of cases relating to unauthorised overdraft charges, which were rejected after the banks won the test case.

The bank also received 41,874 complaints about insurance products during the first half of the year.

Customers complaining about insurance were successful in 54 per cent of cases dealt with during the period.

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Bank of Scotland, which includes the Halifax, Intelligent Finance and Birmingham Midshires brands, received 68,280 complaints about banking during the first half and closed 246,733.

But it found in favour of only seven per cent of customers, although this again reflected the fact that many of complaints related to unauthorised overdraft charges.

The Bank of Scotland arm of the business also received a high number of complaints about insurance at 36,121, more than two-thirds of which were upheld.

The Financial Services Authority has given firms until the end of this month to publish data on the number of complaints they get.