All were former Abbey customers, who were put on standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages after coming off fixed-rate deals.
Current borrowers revert to a standard variable rate (SVR) of just 2% above bank rate, so currently paying 2.5%.
The lender said its standard variable rate (SVR) would be cut by 0.15 of a percentage point to 7.34% from 1 November for existing borrowers.
Lenders' standard variable rate (SVR) deals are tending to be more attractive than new fixed-rate deals for owners, with interest rates having plunged in recent months.
The lender are charging me their highest standard variable rate.
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, explained that most mortgages track a lender's standard variable rate, or the base rate, so most are not directly affected by Libor.
The Bank of England's figures show that as of last November, the average credit card interest rate was 15.89%, while the average interest rate for a standard variable rate mortgage was just 3.98%.
Earlier, in October 2008, the bank had written to some Halifax customers, telling them it would raise the standard variable rate (SVR) 'cap' on their mortgages from 2% above the Bank Rate to 3% above it.
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In its statement, the group said that changes such as cutting the interest its pays on customer deposits, as well as increasing its standard variable rate on UK mortgages by 1.5 percentage points, had improved margins towards the end of the year.
"These mistakes stemmed from the fact that Bank of Scotland had an inadequate mortgage records system meaning they could not identify which of those 250, 000 customers were subject to a cap on their standard variable rate, " said Tracey McDermott, the FSA's director of enforcement and financial crime.
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Meanwhile, Government-owned Northern Rock cut its Standard Variable Rate by 0.1% on Monday, its first move after the Bank of England cut base rates by 0.25% 11 days ago, and more than a week after the chancellor said banks should pass on interest rate cuts to homeowners.
The same is true of the assumption that the mortgage repayment will rise (it could be a longer-term fixed rate for example), or by how much - we have used the Standard Variable Rate (SVR), but the borrower may be using a mortgage which charges a different interest margin.
Floating-rate mortgages last year reduced many borrowers' payment burden as the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5% and lenders adjusted their standard variable rates downward in response.
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