PPI Claims and Bank Charges: Their Relation as Cause and Effect
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Mis sold financial products, such as PPI and mis sold mortgages can increase the amount of repayment customers need to repay monthly. This increase may disable some customers from repaying on time, enabling the bank to charge them a penalty fee for the late repayment. If a customer could prove that a mis sold PPI is the cause of late repayments, it is possible to reclaim all the bank charges they have received. This short guide would illustrate how.
Most people in the United Kingdom file for a PPI claim because they have been mis sold PPI. Right after the Financial Services Authority had stated that banks and other financial institutions had mis sold PPI on almost every loan, mortgage or credit card, people had been filing for PPI claims in thousands daily. However, people fail to recognize that they might also have incurred unfair bank charges because of the mis sold PPI itself.
PPI or payment protection insurance is an insurance policy designed to help the customer cope with repayments in the event they are incapable of repaying their loan, mortgage or credit card. The reasons for their incapability might be because they have suffered a severe sickness, an accident or they have been unemployed. However, insurance products work depending on their terms of agreement. Without this, customers couldn’t claim for the use of PPI without definite agreements.
Banks and lenders have mis sold PPI through abusive sales strategies. They could mis sell the PPI by means of presenting it as a requirement. This should not be so. PPI is an insurance product. Banks and lenders profit through commission by selling the products in quantity. They should the necessity of the customer for the PPI through a financial background check. If the customer was not given such, they could file for mis sold PPI.
Bank charges come into play because of the hefty amounts customers have to repay for the PPI and the loan they have. If the customer could prove that the PPI is the cause of the late payments, they could invalidate the bank charges and reclaim them. Proving this would require the customer to have a financial background check to see if they could really repay the loan alone without the amount to repay the PPI. PPI claims could incorporate reclaiming for bank charges with sufficient evidence found in receipts and billing statements.
Unfair bank charges could also be reclaimed by customers. In the event a customer receives a bank charge on top of £20, they are regarded as unfair bank charges. In such a case, customers could get the sum of the amounts of bank charges they have received and file a claim for such. This could be very difficult. The help of a PPI claims handling company is suggested to ensure that you could relate the PPI as the cause of the unfair bank charges you have received from your bank or lender.