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Nationwide stops PPI sales

September 27, 2007 by admin  
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The largest building society in Britain, the Nationwide, has stopped sales of Payment Protection Insurance with its financial products, after admitting that customers were not being properly advised with regards to PPI by staff members.

Payment Protection Insurance has been at the centre of controversy for some months after it was found that customers were being pushed into purchasing this non-compulsory cover, and that the cover was often being mis-sold inappropriately so that customers ended up purchasing a costly policy that they would never be able to benefit from.

The Financial Services Authority has been running a long term investigation into the sales of Payment Protection Insurance for two years, and is in the final phase of its review and investigation. The cover is designed to assist those that cannot keep up with repayments on their financial commitments due to accidents, illness, or redundancy, and is sold with products such as credit cards, loans, and other financial products that may need protection.

However, the review revealed that in many cases sales staff were mis-selling this policies, making the customer think that they cover was compulsory, and in some cases even adding PPI without the customers’ knowledge. This has led to a real crackdown on the sales of PPI after many people ended up purchasing policies that they were either not eligible to claim benefits on or that they were not even aware that they had purchased.

A Nationwide spokesman stated that the halt in sales of PPI is a temporary one, adding: ‘We did some mystery shopping and weren’t satisfied the sales processes were as robust as they should be, so they have been halted temporarily.’

Tom Smith
27th September 2007

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