Additional payments taken....

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To anyone that can help...
A few years ago I was in a desperate situation with several loans / credit cards coupled with a divorce, so yes I was desperate. I went to my bank to consolidate all the debt into a single loan. The total was £20,500 and I was offered a deal of 12% APR over 97 months. With no other option I took this loan and have been maintaining the payments.
I was going through my paperwork and can see I only have about 6 months left until the loan has been fully repaid. While checking the old statements I see that my repayment goes out on the same day each month, but about 3 years ago the bank took out an additional payment, so in one month I paid back twice the monthly amount. I never agreed to this and received nothing from my bank about this.
I can see in the statement that the extra payment was taken off the loan as the total decreased by that extra amount. So with that I am assuming the loan will be repaid after 96 months instead of the agreed 97.
However, am curious as should this additional payment have affected the amount of interest I am repaying? Also should the bank have been allowed to take this additional repayment?
Any and all information is gratefully received.
A few years ago I was in a desperate situation with several loans / credit cards coupled with a divorce, so yes I was desperate. I went to my bank to consolidate all the debt into a single loan. The total was £20,500 and I was offered a deal of 12% APR over 97 months. With no other option I took this loan and have been maintaining the payments.
I was going through my paperwork and can see I only have about 6 months left until the loan has been fully repaid. While checking the old statements I see that my repayment goes out on the same day each month, but about 3 years ago the bank took out an additional payment, so in one month I paid back twice the monthly amount. I never agreed to this and received nothing from my bank about this.
I can see in the statement that the extra payment was taken off the loan as the total decreased by that extra amount. So with that I am assuming the loan will be repaid after 96 months instead of the agreed 97.
However, am curious as should this additional payment have affected the amount of interest I am repaying? Also should the bank have been allowed to take this additional repayment?
Any and all information is gratefully received.
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It isn't going to help a great deal us speculating however - you need to get your information together and ask your lender. If it was me I'd put together a timeline with the date of each payment I had made and compare that with the outstanding balance.
97 months is an odd length for a loan. They usually deal in round numbers and 96 would be 8 years.
Thanks for all your previous advice and sorry for taking so long to get back on you with details. Also I’m on mobile so forgive formatting and spelling errors.
I do get annual statements and have dig them out, not sure if I’ve got all of them though, but do for the relevant issue.
The duration is definitely 97 months.
Interest rate is 12.9% - I was desperate and they knew it
The monthly repayment is £335.39
So when the extra payment happened the sequence was as follows:
29th December 2017
11th January 2018
25th January 2018
26th February 2018
26th March 2018
The amount taken was the normal amount and the corresponding balance reduced by the correct amount
Before and after that the payment date is always around the 25th/26th
So with this information is there something I should do?
thanks in advance
I will contact the bank and let you know the outcome
banks don’t just randomly take additional
payments...me thinks there is more to this that you are letting on...
11th Jan could be the date set to collect dd's that failed in December, worth checking that the December payment was not showing as failed/returned (although that would mean the statements are wrong)