The consumers are now more
concerned regarding the issue of PPI. This is because of the alarming news that
consumers who were mis-sold of the PPI who made a claim were rejected. The news
from the Birmingham Post reported a decline of one third of the claims that
were filed nine months before April 2013.
Seeing that they have mis-sold the
policy and their claims getting rejected, they have seen this issue as
unjustifiable. Because of such events, they are led to take another action and
this action means taking the complaint to a notch higher. This involves filing
a case to the FOS or the Financial Ombudsman Service. Currently, the FOS is
already swamped with claims that are yet to be resolved.
There are over 6.9 million
mis-sold PPI policies according to experts. These mis-sold PPI has yet to be
claimed. There is no doubt, a lot of consumers are taken away of their money
that should be rightfully theirs. The issue was even made more alarming of the
news that banks have pushed for deadlines in filing a claim. If a customer
wants to take what is rightfully his, he should double time in filing for a
claim. However, a question often asked by many consumers, are they eligible to
make a claim and why you should file a PPI claim now
According to experts, the
thing about PPI being mis-sold is because the consumers are not informed that
they are already purchasing the policy. Most of their cases were of customers
not knowing they have already purchased it. Other cases are also those being
sold of the PPI but the policies were not properly explained to them which got
them confused.
If you belong to the people
who do not really need the policy or should have been deemed ineligible,
contract or seasonal workers, freelancers, you cannot make a policy claim
according to experts. However for those consumers who have a comprehensive
benefit scheme as part of their work and were sold PPI, they are eligible to
file for a PPI claim.
The first thing to do if you
discover that you have been mis-sold with the PPI is make sure you have all the
paperwork ready. In the case of misplacement or lost papers, you have the
option to ask information from the credit reference agencies. If you have
already the paperwork intact, you can then proceed to your bank and check for
your account if you are one of those people who have been mis-sold of the PPI.
To save you from draining
all your energy and precious time in filing a complaint, you can take advantage
of the service of a claims company and theirs is no better time to file a claim
than today especially that there is news of banks pushing for deadlines.