This page provides an overview of financial services firms' complaints reported to the FCA during 2024 H1 (1 January to 30 June 2024), including the latest trends and analysis by product group.
By analysing this data, we evaluate the firms' treatment of their customers and track changes in their performance over time. We also use this information to guide our supervision of firms and markets, and to identify any potential concerns related to specific financial products.
- Key findings
- Aggregate complaints data sortable tables: 2024 H1
- Opened complaints
- Closed complaints
- Complaints upheld
- Redress paid
- About the complaints data
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Key Findings
- In 2024 H1, financial services firms received 1.86m complaints, a 4% decrease from 2023 H2 (1.94m) (Figure 1). Since complaints about Payment Protection Insurance peaked in 2020, complaints have stayed relatively constant between 1.8m and 2m.
- The product groups that experienced an increase in their complaint numbers were:
- Decumulation & pensions - up 7.1% from 86,885 (2023 H2) to 93,023 (2024 H1)
- Insurance & pure protection - up 1.4% from 754,010 (2023 H2) to 764,254 (2024 H1)
- Investments - up 2.1% from 61,513 (2023 H2) to 62,806 (2024 H1)
- The product groups that experienced a decrease in their complaint numbers were:
- Banking and credit cards - down 9.6% from 941,664 (2023 H2) to 850,948 (2024 H1)
- Home finance - down 1.7% from 94,881 (2023 H2) to 93,237 (2024 H1)
- There were decreases in the 3 most often complained about products:
- Current accounts from 515,639 in 2023 H2 to 492,557 in 2024 H1 (4.5%)
- Motor and transport from 281,148 in 2023 H2 to 276,469 in 2024 H1 (1.7%)
- Credit cards from 232,757 in 2023 H2 to 222,529 in 2024 H1 (4.4%)
- Most other products saw small increases or decreases by similar percentage amounts. The most significant changes were in:
- Investment trusts from 1,344 in 2023 H2 to 508 in 2024 H1 (62.2% decrease)
- Payment protection insurance from 2,009 in 2023 H2 to 879 in 2024 H1 (56.2% decrease)
- The percentage of complaints that were upheld by firms remained at 57% between 2023 H2 and 2024 H1.
- In 2024 H1 the total amount of redress was £243m. This is a 6.9% decrease on the 2023 H2 figure of £261m.
While preparing the 2024 H2 publication, we identified a discrepancy in our calculations that led to an overstatement of the total number of accounts in the ‘Banking and Credit Cards’ and ‘Investments’ product groups. This figure is used to calculate the relevant contextualisation metric in Figure 2. The updates are included in the 2024 H2 and future publications. This publication has not been updated.
In 2022, we revised the product group context figure calculation methodology to reduce errors in firm reporting. Be careful when comparing data with previous years.
Additionally, figures for previous years may have changed when compared to previously published figures, due to firm re-submissions.
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Table 1 – Complaints closed in the period
| All complaints | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 H2 | 2023 H1 | 2023 H2 | 2024 H1 | |
| Grand Total | 1,762,488 | 1,897,745 | 1,908,234 | 1,867,396 |
| Complaints closed within 3 days | 46.44% | 45.47% | 46.00% | 43.36% |
| Complaints closed > 3 days but within 8 weeks | 47.69% | 46.89% | 48.11% | 49.70% |
| Complaints closed > 8 weeks | 5.87% | 7.64% | 5.89% | 6.93% |
Source: FCA complaints data
Table 2 – Complaints upheld, and redress paid
| 2022 H2 | 2023 H1 | 2023 H2 | 2024 H1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closed Value | 1,762,488 | 1,897,745 | 1,908,234 | 1,867,396 |
| of which: | ||||
| Upheld Value | 1,062,065 | 1,152,395 | 1,087,703 | 1,058,971 |
| % Upheld | 60.26% | 60.72% | 57.00% | 56.71% |
| Redress Value | £228,369,824 | £236,497,546 | £261,026,831 | £243,126,190 |
| Redress paid for upheld complaints | £198,715,050 | £210,930,790 | £221,723,635 | £213,256,130 |
| Redress paid for complaints not upheld | £29,654,774 | £25,566,756 | £39,303,196 | £29,870,060 |
| Average redress upheld | £187 | £183 | £204 | £201 |
Source: FCA complaints data
Aggregate complaints data sortable tables: 2024 H1
| Product | Product Group | 2023 H2 | 2024 H1 | 2024 H2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current accounts | Banking and credit cards | 515,639 | 492,558 | 491,172 |
| Motor & transport | Insurance & pure protection | 281,251 | 276,795 | 254,788 |
| Credit cards | Banking and credit cards | 232,757 | 222,529 | 217,160 |
| Other general insurance | Insurance & pure protection | 118,981 | 118,520 | 123,824 |
| Property | Insurance & pure protection | 91,940 | 100,250 | 91,890 |
| Savings (including ISAs) | Banking and credit cards | 91,177 | 83,392 | 80,592 |
| Medical/health | Insurance & pure protection | 80,293 | 95,886 | 77,075 |
| Other regulated home finance products | Home finance | 70,393 | 70,619 | 63,670 |
| Warranty | Insurance & pure protection | 43,704 | 53,576 | 51,383 |
| Non-workplace personal pensions (e.g. SIPPs, SHPs, PPPs) | Decumulation & pensions | 45,996 | 50,832 | 49,383 |
| Travel | Insurance & pure protection | 34,669 | 27,551 | 29,280 |
| Pet | Insurance & pure protection | 26,984 | 28,019 | 27,748 |
| Whole of life/term assurance/critical illness | Insurance & pure protection | 23,673 | 24,674 | 23,622 |
| Other banking - Please provide details below | Banking and credit cards | 73,419 | 22,107 | 21,353 |
| Assistance | Insurance & pure protection | 26,632 | 18,125 | 20,370 |
| ISAs (where investment held) | Investments | 21,170 | 22,737 | 18,483 |
| Workplace personal pensions (e.g. SIPPs, SHPs, PPPs) | Decumulation & pensions | 17,749 | 16,341 | 16,413 |
| Other unregulated home finance products | Home finance | 19,147 | 16,759 | 14,738 |
| General insurance packaged multi products | Insurance & pure protection | 19,336 | 14,866 | 12,203 |
| Investment bonds | Investments | 11,290 | 10,963 | 10,056 |
| Drawdown and UFPLS | Decumulation & pensions | 7,008 | 9,037 | 8,232 |
| Annuities (including enhanced and impaired) | Decumulation & pensions | 8,523 | 9,009 | 7,499 |
| Other investment products/funds | Investments | 7,089 | 7,526 | 6,618 |
| Trust based pensions (e.g. Occupational and DB) | Decumulation & pensions | 7,122 | 7,414 | 6,466 |
| Income protection and other accident, sickness and unemployment | Insurance & pure protection | 3,733 | 4,108 | 4,527 |
| Unit trusts/OEICs | Investments | 4,437 | 4,496 | 4,086 |
| Second and subsequent charge | Home finance | 2,698 | 3,022 | 2,639 |
| Endowments | Investments | 3,164 | 3,046 | 2,562 |
| Equity release | Home finance | 1,929 | 2,201 | 2,328 |
| FX/CFD/Spreadbetting | Investments | 1,302 | 1,153 | 1,052 |
| Protection packaged multi products | Insurance & pure protection | 509 | 554 | 788 |
| Impaired credit | Home finance | 714 | 633 | 561 |
| Payment protection insurance | Insurance & pure protection | 2,012 | 882 | 558 |
| Other pensions | Decumulation & pensions | 339 | 286 | 537 |
| Other pure protection | Insurance & pure protection | 381 | 466 | 440 |
| Investment trusts | Investments | 1,344 | 508 | 415 |
| ETPs | Investments | 327 | 303 | 389 |
| Crowdfunding / Peer to Peer | Investments | 301 | 292 | 306 |
| UCITS | Investments | 188 | 187 | 209 |
| Structured products | Investments | 107 | 131 | 152 |
| Investment packaged multi products | Investments | 75 | 73 | 115 |
| Third way products (e.g. investment linked, variable, fixed term) | Decumulation & pensions | 91 | 75 | 67 |
| Pensions packaged multi products | Decumulation & pensions |
Complaints, contextualised by number of products.
| Product | Product Group | 2023 H2 | 2024 H1 | 2024 H2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credit cards | Banking and credit cards | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| Current accounts | Banking and credit cards | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| Other banking - Please provide details below | Banking and credit cards | 1.8 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| Savings (including ISAs) | Banking and credit cards | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Annuities (including enhanced and impaired) | Decumulation & pensions | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Drawdown and UFPLS | Decumulation & pensions | 6.1 | 7.3 | 6.3 |
| Non-workplace personal pensions (e.g. SIPPs, SHPs, PPPs) | Decumulation & pensions | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| Other pensions | Decumulation & pensions | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| Pensions packaged multi products | Decumulation & pensions | |||
| Third way products (e.g. investment linked, variable, fixed term) | Decumulation & pensions | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Trust based pensions (e.g. Occupational and DB) | Decumulation & pensions | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Workplace personal pensions (e.g. SIPPs, SHPs, PPPs) | Decumulation & pensions | 1 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Equity release | Home finance | 6.7 | 8.6 | 9.1 |
| Impaired credit | Home finance | 7.9 | 6.6 | 8 |
| Other regulated home finance products | Home finance | 7 | 7.1 | 6.4 |
| Other unregulated home finance products | Home finance | 7.8 | 7 | 6.3 |
| Second and subsequent charge | Home finance | 28.1 | 27 | 26.5 |
| Assistance | Insurance & pure protection | 2.7 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
| General insurance packaged multi products | Insurance & pure protection | 1.5 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Income protection and other accident, sickness and unemployment | Insurance & pure protection | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
| Medical/health | Insurance & pure protection | 8.3 | 9.9 | 7.3 |
| Motor & transport | Insurance & pure protection | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| Other general insurance | Insurance & pure protection | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Other pure protection | Insurance & pure protection | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Payment protection insurance | Insurance & pure protection | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Pet | Insurance & pure protection | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.3 |
| Property | Insurance & pure protection | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| Protection packaged multi products | Insurance & pure protection | 1 | 1.1 | 1.7 |
| Travel | Insurance & pure protection | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1 |
| Warranty | Insurance & pure protection | 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| Whole of life/term assurance/critical illness | Insurance & pure protection | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Crowdfunding / Peer to Peer | Investments | 0.6 | 1.8 | 0.7 |
| ETPs | Investments | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Endowments | Investments | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| FX/CFD/Spreadbetting | Investments | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| ISAs (where investment held) | Investments | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Investment bonds | Investments | 4.7 | 5 | 4.2 |
| Investment packaged multi products | Investments | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Investment trusts | Investments | 12.7 | 0.5 | 52.6 |
| Other investment products/funds | Investments | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Structured products | Investments | 0.6 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| UCITS | Investments | 0.6 | 8.8 | 1 |
| Unit trusts/OEICs | Investments | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
Context data
Please see about our complaints data section for information about context data.
Disclaimer
The figures reported within this data are accurate at the time of publication and based on firm submissions. Any outcomes of this data using your calculations will remain your responsibility.
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