Credit card payments go untracked with no clear record of where funds applied
Cardholders make payments toward balance transfers that the issuer fails to visibly apply, leaving customers unable to determine where their money went across multiple statement cycles. Repeated calls to customer service fail to produce a clear accounting of the missing payments.
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