CLA Healthcare is a trademark of the Country Land and Business Association Limited (CLA) which is an introducer appointed representative of Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing Limited (HEBW). CLA Healthcare is a trading style of Howden Employee Benefits and Wellbeing Limited, which is licensed to use CLA Healthcare as a trading name. Trading Office: Butterfield Park, Otley Road, Baildon, West Yorkshire BD17 7HE. Howden Employee Benefits and Wellbeing Limited is part of the Howden Group, and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Not all products and services offered are regulated by the FCA
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) defines a complaint as ‘any oral or written expression of dissatisfaction, whether justified or not’.
The complaint may be about the provision of, or failure to provide, a financial service from which you allege to have suffered or that you may suffer a financial loss, material distress or material inconvenience. The FCA defines material as meaning ‘significant and relevant’.
Oral or written includes the following:
A “complaint”, for the purposes of FCA rules, includes any complaint, which alleges:
You may make a complaint if:
If you wish to complain, you may advise any member of our staff or contact us by: Telephoning: 020 3327 5700
Writing to:
Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing,
Compliance,
One Creechurch Place,
London,
EC3A 5AF
Emailing: compliancehuk@hyperiongrp.com
When a complaint is made, you do not have to confirm your complaint in writing. We will confirm our understanding of your complaint in writing to you when we acknowledge your complaint. Where we are able to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction by close of business on the third business day, following the day on which it is received, we will send you a letter of Summary Resolution Communication.
Where we feel we are unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction within the above timescales, HEBW’s Compliance team will issue a letter of acknowledgement together with a copy of HEBW’s complaints procedures to you upon receipt of your complaint. The letter will confirm the nature of your complaint as we understand it and the name and job title of the person handling your complaint.
Where HEBW has reasonable grounds to be satisfied that another firm may be solely responsible for the fault alleged in a complaint, it will refer the complaint to that other firm and will:
Where HEBW has reasonable grounds to be satisfied that another firm may be jointly responsible for the fault alleged in a complaint, it will refer the complaint to that other firm and will:
The Compliance team on behalf of HEBW Limited will, by the end of 8 (eight) weeks after receiving your initial complaint, send you either:
1. A ‘final response letter’, which will detail our investigations and the reasons why we are:
a) Upholding your complaint with an offer of appropriate compensation; or
b) Rejecting your complaint.
If you are unhappy with the outcome, you may be able to refer the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) provided you meet the requirement of being an ‘eligible complainant’, details of which are outlined below. FOS will then investigate the complaint and provide their adjudication as to whether to uphold or reject your complaint.
You will have 6 (six) months from the date of our final response letter to seek adjudication from the FOS. Where we have identified you as an ‘eligible complainant’ our letter will also enclose a copy of the FOS explanatory leaflet and their contact details.
Or
2. A ‘holding letter’ response which
a) Explains why HEBW are still not in a position to provide you with a final response, giving our reasons for the further delay, and indicating a timescale of when we expect to be able to provide you with a final response.
b) In addition, and provided we have identified you as an ‘eligible complainant’, will:
If we have been unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction you may ask FOS to investigate and adjudicate on your complaint, provided that you are an ‘eligible complainant’ as categorised below:
Eligible complainants
Ineligible complainants
If you are in doubt about whether you are an eligible complainant for FOS purposes you should contact the Compliance team who will determine whether HEBW categorises you as an eligible complainant.