Discover Student loan department,
Non-federal student loan Dealing with my lender or servicer Illinois
In continuation of case - [ remove before publishing ] : Discover Student Loans is continuing to report each scheduled and agreed-to auto-draft payment I make to them as a missed payment '' to the credit bureaus. This dramatically damages me as a consumer since my credit scores are significantly impacted by percentage of on time payments '' in my credit history. Discover Student Loan 's missed payments '' appear as the sole negative activities on my credit history since my bankruptcy was discharged, and represent to inquirers proof that whatever money management issues they speculate me to have had before the bankruptcy, continue into the present day. This is factually false as a
on the technicality that because I declared bankruptcy while the loans were with -, the loans automatically enter charge-off '' status under - before they were sold to Discover, and that each payment is then considered simply a reduction in the delinquent amount, regardless if the account had ever been delinquent or not. The loans are already reported as charge-off '' by - however. This means that each of these loans is reported on my credit twice as charged off, damaging my score twice for only - charge-off account as if - account was charged off by - and another by Discover student loans. This is the second problem. Ever since Discover acquired the loans however, I have made each payment as agreed '' by its very definition- payment arrangements were made between myself and Discover upon acquisition, successfully drafted each month, and the agreements were renewed annually. Therefore, the accounts with Discover should show as Paid as Agreed '' and the accounts should only show as charged off '' by - who were the only lenders to charge the debts off. Just today I made ahead-of-schedule arrangements to pay off the remaining balances in full, and the final payment to - account. However I was told that even these ahead-of-schedule payments to pay off the accounts in full will only add to the number of so-called missed payments '' on my credit report. While eliminating delinquent debt which reflects well on me to one who reviews my history closely, my face-value credit score will actually suffer a worse punishment for these early payments by adding to the number and increasing the percentage of so-called missed '' or late payments '' even though they are pre-paying the debt to - the balance completely. Furthermore, these credit agencies show that the charge-off date is updated each month by Discover student loans to be the last date of update. This then shows that each month the loans are charged off not just through the updated charge-off '' date, but also through an illustration of monthly payment history which lists each month as the account being charged off. '' This is the third problem. My only request is that these payments to Discover student loans and the accounts they hold are reported by them factually correct. That means that the payments which were all made as scheduled without error be labeled as on-time '' and that the accounts are marked as Paid as agreed '' until the final payments I arranged today are processed. At that time the accounts should be labeled as PAID IN FULL '' and every payment preceding them should be shown as on time. Industry labeling practice technicalities are no excuse for factual misrepresentations of myself, my payments, my financial agreements, and my ability to keep those agreements. Such misrepresentations damage me significantly.
Discover customer in Illinois
Oct 16, 2015
* Source: CFPB Complaint Database
Discover response to complaint:
Closed with explanation
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