Compiled from Public Data by FairShake
The US government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) collects complaints against financial companies.
In 2019, the CFPB received 1354 complaints against USAA. USAA ranked Number 23 among all financial companies for the most complaints.
Date of Complaint: July 1, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: GA
Product: Checking or savings account
Sub-Product: Other banking product or service
Issue: Managing an account
Sub-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: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: CT
Product: Mortgage
Sub-Product: VA mortgage
Issue: Trouble during payment process
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: CA
Product: Credit card or prepaid card
Sub-Product: General-purpose credit card or charge card
Issue: Problem when making payments
Sub-Issue: Problem during payment process
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes complaint is the result of an isolated error
Date of Complaint: July 4, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: IL
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-Product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-Issue: Account information incorrect
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 1, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: TX
Product: Checking or savings account
Sub-Product: Checking account
Issue: Managing an account
Sub-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: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: GA
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-Product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-Issue: Account information incorrect
Full Complaint:
I bought a car. I started an allotment for the car. I went to the hospital for treatment. The allotment wasn’t processed in a timely manner ( which was later identified and rectified after research ). USAA said they sent letters to my home about my account. I wasn’t there and never received them. They had my phone number and never called. They misspoke once and said they did call but I pulled phone records and proved that they didn’t. They later apologized and I asked for my account to be corrected because they never called. I tried to correct my credit and was unable to. For years I have tried to correct it as it interfered with my clearance. It was corrected for 1 month then reappeared. The representative called me when I called the CEO office and was rude. She said it will not be removed and that I should stop putting in complaints. I was in fear of USAA retaliating so I stopped but it wasn’t right. I called the CEO office and once again Mr XXXX said he didn’t see removing it as a problem. Well I guess I was. The representative called me and said I should stop as the credit report will not change. I went to register my vehicle in XX/XX/2018. I had 39 days to get the registration completed. I received all kind of nasty letters from Georgia saying I was in jeopardy of committing fraud and my plates revoked. I called USAA in panic XXXX XXXX and XXXX. I was promised each time they were working on it. Registration takes 30 days. It was an electronic title. USAA refused to take responsibility that they messed up. Didn’t monitor the transaction or needed actions. They did apologize those. My issue is that why when I made a mistake of trusting my actions ( the allotment ) I corrected it from a hospital bed nd no phone call from USAA, I get 3 years of unfair reporting. But when USAA makes the mistake of not obtaining my title in a timely manner due to oversight and negligence, I get the residual and backlash. No one dings them for this mishap. I think in good faith they should remove that blemish and this time for good as it was not done intentionally and could have been rectified sooner had they simply called me. They had 2 other ways to contact me. The bottomline is it wasn’t done on purpose. I have never been late on ANY vehicle I have ever financed through them. We almost had another problem when they went in the account and tried to debit the payment BEFORE the due date. of course the allotment wasn’t there and they said well we will only try and debit once. But why before the agreement/due date. That causes problems. I’m glad I monitored that transaction. I just want it removed
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 2, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: CO
Product: Payday loan, title loan, or personal loan
Sub-Product: Installment loan
Issue: Charged fees or interest you didn’t expect
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: TX
Product: Checking or savings account
Sub-Product: Checking account
Issue: Problem caused by your funds being low
Sub-Issue: Late or other fees
Response Type: Closed with monetary relief
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: NC
Product: Credit card or prepaid card
Sub-Product: General-purpose credit card or charge card
Issue: Other features, terms, or problems
Sub-Issue: Other problem
Full Complaint:
I received an email on XX/XX/XXXX, from USAA stating a change in my credit card term. For the second time in 2 years, USAA lowered my available credit limit dramatically based on what they said was delinquencies on my credit report. Each time, USAA lowered the credit limit to right above what I owed on the line. This made it look like I had maxed out a line of credit, which I had not. On XX/XX/XXXX, I called USAA and spoke with a person named XXXX in their Executive Resolution area. He proceeded to literally argue with me and tell me theres nothing that can be done. After a brief conversation, it became apparent XXXX knew nothing about how credit works and was just there to stonewall me. I pulled my XXXX credit report immediately after this phone call and it showed absolutely no delinquencies. That same evening, I called back to USAA and spoke to an ER rep named XXXX. She said theres nothing that could be done and that they did not have any procedures to assist me any further. Again, another stonewall from USAA. XXXX, however, said I was using complaint language and completed a complaint form. XXXX did not offer to complete a complaint form on the initial call to USAA. Trust me, I was using complaint language on that call as well. I sent USAA a direct message via XXXX and received communication from a person named XXXX XXXX who would investigate further into my situation with USAA. I finally spoke to XXXX today, XX/XX/XXXX. She said that lowering my credit limit was a business decision but never referenced the delinquencies claim about my credit on which USAA originally claimed to have based their decision. In my opinion, USAA can not back up their decision to lower my credit limit and are acting in deception. It was in XX/XX/XXXX in which I canceled my insurance with USAA. Ive had this credit card for over 19 years. I did not start having an issue with USAA with this credit card until I canceled my insurance with them. Not one time.
Response Type: Closed with explanation
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Date of Complaint: July 3, 2019
Company Official Name: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
State: OR
Product: Checking or savings account
Sub-Product: Other banking product or service
Issue: Opening an account
Sub-Issue: Didn’t receive terms that were advertised
Full Complaint:
Date of transaction XX/XX/2019 Complaint against USAA Went to get an auto insurance quote. USAA has membership qualifications for military. I went through their qualifications list and was informed I did qualify as a child of a veteran. At no time was there anything that said I was not qualified or would not qualify and I was given a membership number. I had to apply for membership, qualify, fill out all sorts of information, including my social security number and my father ‘s social security number. After all of this online membership application, plus account set up, I was then redirected to XXXX XXXX car insurance for a quote! The site did not say I wasn’t qualified for USAA auto insurance, just keep redirecting me to the point I thought my browser was hijacked! I called, wasted even more of my time to be asked all sorts of financial and personal information questions and then told ” I was not qualified ” for a USAA membership! This is fraud. I am sorry, they get you to sign up, claim you are qualified all to get your contact information and social security number. USAA needs to be stopped. That’s just outrageous fraud to obtain someone’s social security number plus redirect them to some auto insurance company for assuredly kick back on sales leads.
Complaint Tags: Servicemember
Response Type: Closed with non-monetary relief
Public Response:
Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
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