Consumer complaint received 2016-03-25
Product: Mortgage — Conventional fixed mortgage
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account — 
Company: HSBC NORTH AMERICA HOLDINGS INC. (NY)

Beneficial continues to deny responsibility for the mistakes they made with our home loan from XX/XX/XXXX to XXXX. Effective XXXX XXXX, XXXX they sold our loan to XXXX XXXX XXXX. They continued to erroneously try to collect " past due '' payments from us into XXXX XXXX - in effect trying to extort money from us when not only were we up to date but paid in full until XX/XX/XXXX. They told XXXX that we were behind so XXXX started charging late fees and other fees. 
XXXX XXXX, XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, Vice-President Customer Disputes and XXXX XXXX, manager Customer Disputes, sent a letter to the NYS Attorney General stating that, " We have completed reconciliations on both accounts and can confirm that the account status on each account is accurate. '' AND " Account XXXX ( The account in question ) is current. The next payment is due on XXXX XXXX, XXXX, in the amount of {$1000.00}. '' Statements for XXXX and XXXX XXXX do not reflect the correct payments that we made and my husband spoke with a XXXX at Beneficial on XXXX XXXX, XXXX and she confirmed that our mortgage loan account was up to date. 
Payment history : Between XXXX/XXXX/XXXX and XXXX/XXXX/XXXX we sent Beneficial a total of {$10000.00}. The financial records of our account that were sent to us by XXXX XXXX, XXXX Customer Disputes, on XXXX XXXX, XXXX, confirms this and we have the cancelled checks to back it up. 
Our monthly payment is {$1700.00}. There are 5 payments due from XXXX XXXX through XXXX XXXX. {$1700.00} x XXXX = {$8500.00}. 
So at the time that Beneficial sold our mortgage to XXXX we were not only up to date but ahead in payments. 
TWO payments were applied to the XXXX XXXX, XXXX payment and only one was credited toward our mortgage. The second should have been applied to the XXXX XXXX, XXXX payment. 
From XXXX/XXXX/XXXX throughXX/XX/XXXX a total amount of {$3600.00} was received by Beneficial yet only one month was credited toward our mortgage. 
We were also assessed four late payment fees, XXXX on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX ( XXXX ), XXXX on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX ( XXXX & XXXX ) and XXXX on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX ( {$34.00} ) for a total of {$61.00}. 
If Beneficial had properly credited our account with the payments we sent in and you cashed, we would have been credited with on time payments for the months of XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX and XX/XX/XXXX. The total amount due for those 6 months was ( {$1700.00} x XXXX ) {$10000.00}. 
We paid Beneficial {$10000.00} and that would leave {$500.00} for the month of XX/XX/XXXX in our account. 
In a letter dated XXXX XXXX, XXXX, from XXXX XXXX, Vice President, Customer Service, XXXX XXXX Loans, she states : " Furthermore your allegations are regarding the previous servicer and not XXXX. Please be advised XXXX is unable to confirm any actions or provide any answers in regards to the previous servicer as we are not affiliated with them. In order to have these concerns adequately addressed, you should contact your prior servicer directly. '' Beneficial is the prior servicer and they refuse to address the problems.