Banks routinely decline goodwill removal of isolated late payment marks
A long-standing customer missed one payment due to a medical emergency and asked their bank to remove the resulting late-payment mark as a one-time courtesy, given years of on-time history. The bank declined, citing a blanket no-goodwill-adjustment policy, leaving no path to correct an otherwise isolated blemish.
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