Citifinancial
Misdirected PPI Payments Applied Only to Interest on My Loan

I filed a claim for my Payment Protection Insurance with a subsidiary of Citifinancial who sold the insurance, and I made the loan payment as usual until the insurance proceeds would be sent.

When the payment was sent to Citifinancial, they refused to give me the check for the specific period I had already paid and applied the money by some other unexplainable means to my account, which only went into the interest column.

I tried to discuss the matter with a branch worker, who could not offer any reasonable explanation as to how money could be applied to a future payment without being applied to the interest, since the only way to pay a loan into the future is to apply money to the principal.

This practice went on for months and years, and no matter whether I made the monthly payment or not, the insurance proceeds were moved into some month into the future (e.g., if the insurance check came in September, they used it to pay December's payment).

I still have not had any success getting this straightened out, and they are claiming I have unpaid interest on my account. If I pay to have my car fixed out of my pocket, when the insurance company sends the proceeds, would the repair shop be able to keep that check also?

Well, this was the case with Citifinancial, and I know it's wrong.

Company: Citifinancial
Country: USA
Site: citifinancial.com

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