Contact
You’ll find answers to commonly asked questions, as well as support articles, documents and forms in our support section.
If there’s anything else you need, please use our contact form, call or write to us at Aegon.co.uk or tweet us.
If your plan/bond is provided by Aegon Ireland, call or write to us at Aegon.ie. Your policy conditions will show if your plan/bond is provided by Aegon Ireland.
Contact details
Calls may be recorded for your protection and to improve our services. We'll need to ask you some questions to confirm your identity, so please make sure you have your plan number and other plan details to hand.
General Queries
Phone: 03456 10 00 10
Calling from abroad: +44 (0)131 666 8567
For Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC), One Retirement or Protection enquiries, please use the contact details further down.
Customer Services, Aegon, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9SE
Protection
General: 03456 00 14 02
Pre-submission underwriting helpline: 03457 83 54 73
Protection claims: 03456 00 04 93
Address: Aegon, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9SE
Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC) and One Retirement (OR)
Phone: +44 (0) 3456 081 680
Address: Platform Client Services, Aegon, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9SE
Retiready
Phone: 03456 1000 72
Investor Portfolio Service (IPS)
If you feel you need to make a complaint, you can contact us in any of the following ways:
By phone – if you don’t have the number for the specific department that dealt with your case, you can call our helpdesk on 03456 10 00 10.
By post – you can write to us at Aegon, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH12 9SE.
By email – using our online form above. If you need to attach documentation you can email us at complaintsMB@aegon.co.uk
However, please note that there’s no guarantee that any email sent will be received or that it will remain private during internet transmission. So, you should avoid sending us any personal or confidential information this way.
You can view our complaints procedure here(Opens new window)(Opens new window).
Our complaints policy is available to download or read online(Opens new window).
Our complaints data
We take complaints seriously at Aegon and welcome the opportunity to learn from our customers’ concerns. You can find out more about our level of recent complaints and how we dealt with them below.
We’re committed to giving all our customers a high standard of service, but we know that sometimes we don’t get things right. When this happens, we aim to deal with all complaints in a fair, efficient and effective manner.
Complaints publication report
We report details of our complaints to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) twice a year. This table covers our most recent report - the six-month period from 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017.
Firm name: Scottish Equitable plc
Group: Aegon UK
Other firms included in this report: none
Period covered in this report: 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017.
Brand/trading names covered: Scottish Equitable, Aegon Scottish Equitable, Aegon
| Number of complaints opened by volume of business | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product/service grouping | Provision* | Number of complaints opened | Number of complaints closed** | Percentage closed within 3 days | Percentage closed after 3 days but within 8 weeks | Percentage upheld | Main cause of complaints opened |
| Banking and credit cards† | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Home Finance† | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Insurance and pure protection | 1.44* | 583 | 581 | 41.8% | 56.8% | 48.9% | General admin/customer service |
| Decumulation and pensions | 0.95* | 2,112 | 2,227 | 19.2% | 74.7% | 64.5% | General admin/customer service |
| Investments | 2.66* | 72 | 70 | 14.3% | 84.3% | 68.6% | General admin/customer service |
| Credit related† | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
*The number of new complaints per 1,000 policies in force as at 31 December 2017
**The number of complaints resolved may be greater than the number received as some of those resolved may have been received in the preceding reporting period.
†We don’t have any products which fall into these categories.
Learning from complaints
We're committed to treating our customers fairly and will continue to do all we can to learn from the complaints we receive to improve our level of service to you in the future. If you have a complaint, please contact us using the details on this page.
General post-sale servicing questions
Phone: 08456 000 173 (from the UK)
00 353 1 673 8840 (from outside the UK)
Fax: 00 353 1 673 8940
Address: Aegon Ireland plc, 2nd Floor, IFSC House, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1
New Business Applications
Address: Aegon Ireland New Business, c/o Aegon UK, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH12 9SE
If you feel you need to make a complaint, you can contact us in any of the following ways:
By phone – You can contact our Client Relations Team on 0845 6000 173
By post – you can write to us at Aegon Ireland, 2nd Floor, IFSC House, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland
By email – if you’d like to email us about your complaint, please send it to client.relations@aegon.ie
However, please note that there’s no guarantee that any email sent will be received or that it will remain private during internet transmission. So, you should avoid sending us any personal or confidential information this way.