Search our full list of participating companies to find out whether Ombudsman Services can help you resolve your complaint.
We have a set of rules that govern the complaints we can and cannot accept for review. We'll use these rules to assess your complaint to see if we help.
You can take a look at the energy terms of reference (which also covers Networks) or the communications terms of reference. for more detail.
We aim to help as many people as we can, but there are some circumstances when we will not be able to review a complaint, such as:
The complaint occurred before the provider signed up to our scheme.
A court or another independent body has already reviewed the complaint.
A court or another organisation is in the process of considering your complaint.
Your issue needs to be considered by a court, regulator or other independent body.
A complaint has been raised to deliberately cause inconvenience to a company.
A complaint with no real merit or value which has no prospect of succeeding.