Consumer complaint received 2022-02-03
Company: HYUNDAI CAPITAL AMERICA
State: FL
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-issue: Account status incorrect

Complaint:
In the midst of the pandemic in XXXX, my husband ( who has submitted a duplicate CFPB complaint ) and I returned our KIA XXXX XXXX exactly as agreed in early XX/XX/XXXX, one day before we temporarily moved overseas. All our monthly lease payments were completed without a missed payment. We advised KIA Finance by phone that we wished to receive the final bill by email which we understood contained an administrative vehicle return fee over and above all lease payments which we had fully paid on time with no delinquency. We explained that we would be overseas and there would be delays in receiving any paper mail while we were overseas. We did not receive the requested email with the final bill. Shortly after we returned to the USA in late XXXX, we found in mail delivered by a neighbor a final bill and a debt collection notice with the unpaid amount. We paid the bill by check in early XXXX ( documents attached - imaged check, bank statement, mailed envelope ). The check was cashed as noted in our bank statement but we did not receive a notice from KIA Finance. We subsequently received our backlog mail at our local post office ( collection was delayed because of pandemic-related safety issues ) and also received a home delivery of previous mail many weeks after it was sent ( which many other folks we know also experienced with USPS in late XXXX/early XXXX for reasons unclear to us ). We found in our accumulated and delayed mail backlog a debt collection notice with additional late fees claimed beyond the final amount due which we had paid by check as mentioned previously. To our shock, what was being billed was about twice the original amount we had already paid and with no previous warning of any kind. In any case, we assumed this collection letter we received belatedly would be superseded by a payment acknowledgment of the original amount due after the check for the same was sent and cashed by KIA FINANCE in XX/XX/XXXX per attached documents. 

We have also just this weekend end XX/XX/XXXX discovered an adverse reference to this matter in our credit report. We believe that our good faith in seeking to fully pay our debt is not properly reflected as our credit report currently stands. We have asked HYUNDAI KIA Motor Finance to urgently resolve this matter by acknowledging our final payment and also removing the adverse credit report entry. We add that we have not any non-payment of any of our debts in the past except for very few minor delays in very few payments and which were due to overseas travel. In fact, all our bank and revolving credits have an exceptional standing. All payments on all our accounts are up to date. The above was a truly exceptional situation which occurred under pandemic circumstances.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation