Please find the full publication from FOS here.
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) publish data every six months showing the number and outcome of the complaints the FOS handle about financial businesses. This half-yearly data shows the number of complaints against financial businesses for which there were both 30 new and 30 resolved complaints in the relevant period.
The data on this page covers July to December 2023.
July to December 2023
- Overall, the FOS received a total of 95,349 complaints between 1 July and 31 December 2023. This is an increase of almost 20% on the same period in 2022, when the FOS received 79,921 complaints.
- 236 businesses feature in our complaints data for the second half of 2023, this is up on the second half of 2022 – when 212 businesses featured.
- In the second six months of the year, the FOS upheld 36% of complaints in the consumers’ favour, compared to 34% in the second half of 2022.
Insights from the second six months of the year
- Banking and consumer credit related complaints were the main driver of the rise.
- Current accounts and credit cards made up over 40% of complaints in the banking and credit sector.
- Current account complaints continue to be dominated by disputes over fraud and scams.
- Credit card complaints were driven by perceived unaffordable and irresponsible lending, reflecting the insight the FOS shared in March 2024 about credit card complaints hitting an all time high.
- The FOS also saw an increase in general insurance cases. Complaints about car or motorcycle insurance saw the sharpest rise, with issues including delays in putting things right when a claim is made, and claims valuations.
About our half-yearly data
Our Excel spreadsheet includes two rows for totals – the total number of complaints the FOSThe Financial Ombudsman Service received as well as the totals purely for firms which are above the publication threshold of 30 new and 30 resolved complaints.
From H2 2022, complaints about Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) have not been published in a separate category. They are be included within the wider General Insurance/Pure Protection sector totals.
This half-yearly data includes a category for complaints that have been settled proactively with businesses. Proactively settled complaints are recorded separately in our data, they aren’t recorded as a change in favour of the consumer and don’t count towards a financial business’ change in outcome rate.
The Financial Ombudsman Service have also published early resolution data for July to December 2023. These are complaints where, with the consent of the business and the consumer, the FOS have been involved in a complaint before the business has investigated it.
The Financial Ombudsman Service not currently seeing complaints about CMCs which meet the thresholds for data publication.
Please find the full publication from FOS here.
