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The US government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) collects complaints against financial companies.
In 2016, the CFPB received 979 complaints against USAA. USAA ranked Number 28 among all financial companies for the most complaints.
Date of Complaint: June 15, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: MD
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Other bank product/service
Issue: Deposits and withdrawals
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes complaint is the result of an isolated error
Date of Complaint: June 15, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: FL
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Other bank product/service
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 15, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: VA
Product: Credit card
Issue: Billing disputes
Full Complaint:
I used a 3rd party vendor to purchase an airline ticket XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX on XXXX XXXX. As soon as the confirmation came back I noticed they changed the travel date. They said the search criteria automatically switches to booking to get the cheaper price. This is certainly a bait and switch. I immediately called back and explained what happened They processed my refund. The email confirming listed {0.00}, the credit card charge was {.00} and the refund confirmation was {0.00} and I have confirmation of the refund via email but it never hit my card. They even agreed to credit me more than what I paid. I was required to stay on the phone with the representative until I received the email. I received the email and had to give the sales person the code in order to cancel the reservation. Which I did. I had verbal confirmation that it was canceled and an email. Next, I decided to call XXXX XXXX to re-book instead of using the third party. When I re-booked the flight directly with the airline ( 5 minutes later ), they confirmed that no reservation was in their system and that they had not received payment from the third party so I went ahead and booked the ticket. I received my credit card statement with both charges. I disputed the charge with my credit card company. i have called 13 times and sent in emails with my documentation. As of this date I have only received a letter saying the card was used ” in person ” which is impossible. They implied that it was a swipe and it was not. The last representative told me the letter was automatically generated and was a mistake. I have called so many times and I just want my lousy credit. They are terrible and I have been a member for 30 years. They need to be reprimanded for not following their contract.
Response Type: Closed with monetary relief
Public Response:
Company believes complaint represents an opportunity for improvement to better serve consumers
Date of Complaint: June 20, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: GA
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Checking account
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 19, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: NV
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Checking account
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management
Full Complaint:
Enclosed is a letter explainging dire urgency of issues. Around XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and myself were with USAA BANK and INSURANCE for CAR and RENTAL.
XXXX been a member for over 20 years. We had noticed large amounts of money missing from our checking accounts. We made several calls to USAA bank about the issues. USAA BANK was of little help.
In fact at one point they a USAA customer service person said that we should look at each other as the culprits. It was at that time, I decided to open up a seprete USAA checking account in my own name to monitor issues. And in next few weeks more and more money from accounts ended up missing. It was n’t until around XXXX XXXX that we started get answers when a boyfriend of a friend came forward and told us that he knew his boyfriend had been using our information and cards and that he had several convictions against him for credit card fraud and being in caught possession with other peoples credit and or debit cards. The boyfriend of our friend who was doing this to us left a message for the boyfriend were he admitted using us and others and did n’t care. He was also renting out his garage to well over 6 homeless or other people and taking their SSI checks. The person who had been stealing from us also had someone show up XXXX at our door which a neighbor saw this and called the police. As well he started many disturbances knowing that we were going to be filing a police report. The loss was greater than we could even imagine around end of XXXX it was around {000.00} plus. We also found out the person who had been getting into our accounts had an operation running credit cards from state to state. We knew very little if nothing about account tampering, credit card fraud or anything of the like, so XXXX XXXX called USAA to warn them of all that was going on and that the person doing this had got into our accounts and we were unclear of what they could do to any other accounts at USAA as we said we were just learning about dealing with this stuff. I was asleep when XXXX got USAA employee XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ) on phone. As he proceeded to tell her what was going on I could hear her shriek while waking me up and causing me to go into the other room, she said WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US. Only she did not use those words. They were much more harsh. And proceeded to rant. It took quite a while for XXXX to explain our situation and that we were calling to let them know what was going on with our accounts and wanted warn them in case the person who done this could harm any other USAA customers with the information we had. After a while of going back and forth, she finally said for us to go to police station fill out a report and let them know what charges were not ours from checking account.
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 17, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: FL
Product: Mortgage
Sub-Product: VA mortgage
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account
Full Complaint:
My VA mortgage with USAA was paid in full through refinancing with XXXX XXXX on XXXX/XXXX/16. There was an escrow account in the amount of {00.00} to be refunded and mail to me at the address they had on file. To this date XXXX/XXXX/16 I still have not received the escrow refund. I feel this is an abusive amount of time specially in the digital age we live in.
Complaint Tags: Older American, Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 15, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: CA
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Other bank product/service
Issue: Deposits and withdrawals
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 19, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: GA
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Checking account
Issue: Deposits and withdrawals
Full Complaint:
I have been a member of USAA for almost 10 years now. On the XXXX of XXXX, my wife and I deposited her commission check she received for a XXXX deal she completed that day. She is a XXXX and has had large commission checks deposited to this account before. This particular check was for over {00.00}. We called before we deposited it via the mobile banking app ( because that is the ONLY way you can deposit a check ) to ensure some of the money would be available for immediate use. The banking rep stated that we would have access to most of the money. They would hold {00.00} while the check cleared. This seemed normal and we deposited the check. We immediately had access to the money like the representative stated with a hold of about {00.00}. Two hours later, the account was locked down for ” Fraud Alert ”. We have XXXX accounts we use for different aspects of our lives. Not only did they lock the main account down, the account the check was deposited to, but locked down ALL XXXX accounts for ” Fraud ”. This check came from a XXXX office. We called before we deposited it, and yet, EVERY account we had was locked down for ” Fraud ”. To make matters worse, when we called to figure out what the issue was, they told us it would take THREE days for it to be rectified! THREE DAYS! We could n’t access a XXXX of our money for THREE days! We spoke with several people and no one would help us. They kept telling us it would take the fraud department time to ” investigate ” the check. Meanwhile, I have XXXX who I could n’t feed because we could n’t access our money. No answers, no sympathy, and no action was taken by USAA to expedite the situation. We spoke to a manager who gave us a bad attitude and did n’t help us at all. It did n’t seem that any department had any idea what the other was doing. One person told us that the automated system triggered the main account for fraud but then another person, they did n’t know who, came behind that and locked us out of all of our accounts. We have yet to hear anything from anyone and the issue is still not rectified, 4 days into it.
Response Type: Closed with monetary relief
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 16, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: TX
Product: Mortgage
Sub-Product: Home equity loan or line of credit
Issue: Loan modification,collection,foreclosure
Full Complaint:
My former home is in the foreclosure process. The property has XXXX liens against it – the XXXX with XXXX and the XXXX with USAA. I am trying to complete a deed in lieu with XXXX, but I ca n’t until the lien with USAA is settled and released. In my negotiations with USAA, USAA is being slow and/or unresponsive. It is taking them XXXX days to respond to my offers, increasing the likelihood that XXXX will do a judicial foreclosure and USAA will end up with a lower settlement.
Response Type: Closed with non-monetary relief
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: June 17, 2016
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: OK
Product: Bank account or service
Sub-Product: Savings account
Issue: Deposits and withdrawals
Full Complaint:
My bank, USAA deposited my tax refund of XXXX dollars into the wrong bank account. According to USAA, another USAA account holder by the name of XXXX XXXX XXXX was unjustly enriched by money that belongs to me. USAA initially did not want to help at all, and essentially sent me on a fruitless 2 month run-around which involved me contacting my tax company, XXXX, as well the IRS, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, my local police, and even my small claims court. None of these organizations helped me, and all insisted that I get back in contact with my bank ( USAA ). After finally submitting a formal complaint through the XXXX, I was contacted by a representative named XXXX XXXX who said she would attempt to get my money back by calling XXXX XXXX and asking him to put the money back into his account, so that it could be transferred to me. Note, this was a solution of which I asked USAA to perform months ago, and they were not willing. It took countless hours on the phone with USAA and finally an act on XXXX part to get my bank to do the minimum amount of effort. However, this effort was also made in vain as I was told that I would see results on the week of XXXX XXXX, 2016, and still have not heard anything about the money being put back into my account. USAA claimed that they will not pay for the damages, and will only resolve the issue is XXXX XXXX puts the money into his account. Seeing that the XXXX XXXX is not legally obliged to remedy an error made on USAA ‘s part, it is apparent that he will never put the money back. To conclude, I am asking for help to resolve this issue with my bank, so that my money can be sent to me ( the rightful owner ).
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
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