FOS complaints data: Aviva tops list on pension gripes

Banks take crown for investment complaints

Hannah Godfrey
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Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) data from the first six months of 2020 has revealed Aviva received the most pension complaints of all firms listed.

Between January and June 2020, the FOS received a total of 76,624 non-PPI complaints, up by just under 1,000 from the previous reporting period. During the period Aviva received 276 new pension complaints. In H1 2020, 23% of pension complaints against it were upheld but some of those could relate to pension complaints from a previous period that were resolved during the first six months of 2020. After Aviva came Prudential, with 195 new pension complaints during H1 2020, with 11% of pension complaints against upheld. Phoenix Life was the third provider most complained about when it...

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