UK citizens are suffering daily from the economic struggles the country faces today. To enable their customers to have a financial breather, banks are required to be fair to the needs and concerns of their customers. With the abusive tactics used by banks to ‘trap’ their customers, the Lending Code was clearly broken by banks to start with. Below is information that you’ll need to ensure that you are in the right of law to reclaim bank charges.
The financial struggle in the UK continues to this day as every citizen is entangled in a series of financial traps due to swindling banks and lenders. With the difficult quality of life in the UK, banks have no right to charge their customers a high amount for any service or penalty bank charges. According to the Ministry of Justice and the Lending Code, banks and lenders have to treat their customers fairly and reasonably at all times.
UK citizens receive bank charges any time they use an ATM, withdraw money from their bank accounts, have their money transferred to another bank account. These are service charges. Penalty charges are fees for overdrafts, bounced cheques and late repayments. An unfair bank charge is an amount that is disproportionate to the penalty amount or service charge. The Office of Fair Trading states that £20 is the highest amount a bank charge should have. Customers could refund anything that goes above it.
The disproportion of amounts is the key to identifying unfair bank charges. For example, anybody who accidentally overdrafts their bank account by £5 gets an unfair bank charge if he or she is charged £35 for the overdraft. Abusive bank practices also merits customers refunds for bank charges. For example, a customer who frequently overdrafts their bank accounts is indeed trouble for the bank. However, the bank has no right to charge them continuously. They could ask the customer about their financial situation, or the customer could correspond with them about how they can resolve the issue.
Many UK citizens today are likely to incur unfair bank charges. Anybody who receives anything higher than £20 could reclaim the said amount because the OFT and the Ministry of Justice agreed on the amount based on the current economic status the UK has. The high numbers of unemployed, the few number of jobs available, income being insufficient to provide for daily needs and the fiasco caused by mis sold insurance products and services revoke the right of banks to charge their customers a great amount for bank charges.
Banks must contact you in case you are being “snowballed’ by your bank charges instead of charging you continuously. Mis sold insurance products will need the legal expertise of PPI claims handling companies. Proving that your mis sold PPI is the cause of overdrafts, late repayments and financial struggles enables you to reclaim all the refunds you deserve. Working with a no win no fee claims handling company only ascertains you good results.