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Interest charges on a defaulted credit card

Amanna · 2020-10-26 23:13:22

Hi,I have a Santander credit card that I defaulted on in 2015, due to unemployment. I have been slowly paying it off, and only have a few hundred pounds left to go. When I was looking through my online statements recently, I realised that they had continued to charge me interest for at least three months after I defaulted.…

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Amanna Posts: 33 Forumite

12 November 2020 at 4:55AM edited 12 November 2020 at 4:59AM

sourcrates and Yahoo_Mail, thank you both for your insightful responses. I will definitely be having a read of the fca handbook. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I had my notifications off, so I didn't know when people were replying.

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