Citizens Advice response to Lloyds announcement on PPI

Citizens Advice Chief Executive, Gillian Guy said:

“We are really pleased to hear today that Lloyds is planning to settle PPI claims where redress is appropriate, after discussions with the FSA.

“We hope that other banks follow suit and customers will finallybeawarded the compensation they are due for mis-sold PPI policies that were far too expensive and completely unsuitable for their needs.”

In September 2005 Citizens Advice made a ‘super complaint’ to the Office of Fair Trading, calling on them to launch an investigation into the payment protection insurance (PPI) business, which at that time had an estimated 20 million policies in force and produced annual revenue in excess of £5 billion. Protection racket – CAB evidence on the cost and effectiveness of payment protection insurance, the report on which the super complaint was based, is available on the Citizens Advice website: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/protection_racket

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