Consumer complaint received 2016-05-05
Company: SLM CORPORATION
State: NY
Product: Student loan
Sub-product: Non-federal student loan
Issue: Dealing with my lender or servicer
Sub-issue: Trouble with how payments are handled

Complaint:
I have XXXX loans ( we 'll call them the " XXXX '' and " XXXX '' loans ) with Sallie Mae currently- they 're under the same account, but for XXXX different school years. The XXXX loans have their own cosigners, XXXX who have been making monthly payments on their respective loans. We do not use Sallie Mae 's automatic Bill Pay option, as the cosigners would rather have control of the flow of payments through their own banks. 

Over the past several months, whenever a check was sent to Sallie Mae to pay for the XXXX loan, it was always allocated to the XXXX loan, instead. As a result, my XXXX cosigner and I were notified that a payment was overdue. I 've called them many times over the past months to reallocate these payments, and it would take days for the changes to take effect. Often in the meantime, it meant that a late fee would be charged to the account, never mind that the payment had actually been received. 

In late XXXX, I had come to find out this had happened again when Sallie Mae was asking for the upcoming XXXX payment. I called Sallie Mae to figure out what was going on and reassign payments ( again! ). I had then found out that the XXXX loan has an overflow account- money that was sent to pay for the XXXX loan that has exceeded the scheduled payments due. I then asked that enough money be taken out of the overflow account to pay for any outstanding payments ( XXXX and XXXX payments ) for the XXXX loan, and I was told it would be done. 

Two weeks later, I was still receiving notices of overdue payments. Calling them back ( AGAIN! ), I 'd found out that the " work order did n't go through '' - they could n't tell me why. I asked them to start over, once again taking enough money out of the XXXX overflow account to pay for any outstanding payments XXXX XXXX and XXXX payments ) for the XXXX loan, and they said they would do it. For the next ten days, the balance due on the XXXX loan kept fluctuating- I was told this was to be expected because of the work order. 

I have just finished looking at my loan summary on Sallie Mae 's website ( it is now the beginning of XXXX ), and have been told that, alongside the payment due for XXXX, there is still (!? ) a past due amount on the XXXX loan- and I have once again been charged a late fee. 

I do n't understand what 's going on with this loan anymore. Over the past several months, every time I 've called, each representative gave me different answers to the same questions. I 'm pretty sure at one point, a supervisor outright lied to me about the details of my account ( a representative 's description of my account did not match the supervisor 's, despite them reading the same notes left on my account ). I am still in school, in a very work-intensive program, and do not have the time nor energy to keep playing this game with Sallie Mae. Goodness knows how this affects my credit score, or the credit scores of my cosigners! This has gotten beyond ridiculous.

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation