Loan servicers hold payments unapplied for months despite escalations and deadlines
A student loan servicer failed to apply a $1,200 payment for nearly 11 months, repeatedly missing its own self-imposed resolution deadlines even after regulatory complaints and confirmed payment trace numbers. Borrowers have no enforcement lever to force timely reconciliation beyond filing repeated complaints.
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