Argon - Arrogant Customer Service
I've had a smallish occupational pension which was invested with Aegon. I recently applied to take it as a lump sum. It was under £30k and I have had no income for the past year yet they taxed me at 40% and 45% on most of it. I paid over 10k tax ...
Read moreI've had a smallish occupational pension which was invested with Aegon. I recently applied to take it as a lump sum. It was under £30k and I have had no income for the past year yet they taxed me at 40% and 45% on most of it. I paid over 10k tax on 26k. HMRC advise that I should have paid just over £3k. This is supported by Aegons competitors online calculators and by HMRC the latter if who said that Aegon should have asked some basic tax and income figures for the past year which they didn't. I have been promised return call after return call by key staff in both their customer service and complaints department. Which never materialise. They love saying "tomorrow" and when tomorrow comes they say the same again. They have senior managers who effectively hide under their desks and consider themselves far too important to deal with genuine customer concerns. I now have to go through months of correspondence with the tax office to get over £7k back all because Aegon have an arrogant better than you attitude to customer service. They also use the old fashioned 1 week BACs payment system rather than CHAPs to make their payments. Ive experienced no credible customer service management at Aegon
