FSCS protects you when financial firms fail

Set-up by parliament and funded by the financial services industry, FSCS is a completely independent and free service.

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Financial firm updates

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Banks & building societies

Protection for bank and building society accounts

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Credit unions

Protection against failed financial co-operatives

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Debt management

Protection against debt management firm failures

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Mortgage endowments

Mis-sold endowment policies where the firm has dissolved

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Mortgage advice

Bad or misleading mortgage advice and the firm has dissolved

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Insurance

Cover against insurance company and insurance broker failures

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Investments

Compensation for investments with firms that have failed

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PPI

Mis-sold PPI after 14 Jan 2005 and the firm's now gone?

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Pensions

Protection against failed pension providers and investments

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