Mortgage servicers report phone-authorized partial payments as delinquencies
A borrower says a mortgage servicer's phone representatives repeatedly authorized and accepted partial payments as acceptable, then reported the same payments as delinquent, dropping the borrower's credit score significantly and blocking access to further financing. This exposes a mismatch between what phone reps tell borrowers and what the servicer's system of record actually reports.
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