The mis-selling of loans in the UK, (homeowner, car loans and credit card), and the insurance sold alongside them, known as PPI is one of the biggest rip-offs carried out by banks- and has resulted in an exceptional business opportunity for affiliates, through consumers reclaiming this money from them, using a claims management service.
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Around 50% of the 20 million PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) policies sold in the UK were mis-sold. In many cases, people were pressured into buying PPI, being told it was a condition of getting the loan. In others, policies turned out not to be worth the paper they were written on when the time came to claim.
The good news is there is a very high success rate for those making claims against lenders/ banks. Fines of more than £22 million were levied against Lenders, for mis-selling, in 2008 and more will follow this year - making it easier and easier to lodge successful claims. Although customers are able to make independent claims for refunds, most are reluctant to take on these mega-institutions on their own.
This is where companies like "First Refunds" come in. They are regulated by the Ministry of Justice, which officially enables them to manage claims on behalf of these people. The majority of cases are clear-cut. Where there is any doubt, we have the authority to obtain all data on the sale of the loan / PPI including all recordings of telephone calls made between the lender and customer.
For this service they charge absolutely nothing until the claim is successful. The process takes on average 8 – 12 weeks. Occasionally, when a settlement cannot be reached, a case is referred to the Financial Ombudsman to make a judgement. Although this process can take longer it is usually successful for the claimant (the success rate currently stands at 90%+).
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Most claims fall under two categories:
1) PPI mis-selling
This is the mis-selling of single premium insurance policies sold alongside car loans, homeowner loans and credit cards, usually taken out to cover the loan premiums should the customer not be able to keep up payments– due to redundancy, illness, etc. There are as many as twelve reasons constitutes mis-selling, with the two most common being
• the customer was pressured into taking it, and
• the term of the PPI is different to the term of the loan.
PPI is considered ‘mis-sold’
The sale of PPI is such a scam, that it has now been banned by the FSA.
2) Undeclared Broker Commissions.
Unless the financial broker declares to the borrower exactly how much they received in commission on the sale of a loan, the whole commission is reclaimable under established UK case law. This is further strengthened if the broker also charged a separate broker fee. Millions of broker commissions are undeclared and many of the big banks are making provision to pay back up to 15% of the value of the loans they gave out.
Example of payout:- The average homeowner loan in the UK is £40,000, with £8,000 PPI and £4000 undisclosed broker commission . The First Refunds fee on successful claims would be £2000 for the PPI and £1000 for the Undeclared Broker Commission.
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