@Anonymous wrote:
I just received my credit card statement from Chase. I had an existing balance transfer at a low rate combined with some recent purchases at A higher APR. I noticed that my extra payments were not being applied to the highest rate balances.
Isn't this practice outlawed as of Feb 2010? Has anyone else ecperienced this?
Was the interest deferred for a period of time on the BT balance, and did the deferred interest period recently expire? According to my read of the Credit CARD Act, payments in excess of the minimum payment are supposed to be applied to the part of the balance on which the interest was deferred, without regard to the interest rate.
I could be reading it wrong - I find legalese to be very cumbersome to understand. So here's the text; someone let me know if I'm interpreting the law incorrectly.
Sec. 164(b) Application of Payments-
(1) IN GENERAL- Upon receipt of a payment from a cardholder, the card issuer shall apply amounts in excess of the minimum payment amount first to the card balance bearing the highest rate of interest, and then to each successive balance bearing the next highest rate of interest, until the payment is exhausted.
(2) CLARIFICATION RELATING TO CERTAIN DEFERRED INTEREST ARRANGEMENTS- A creditor shall allocate the entire amount paid by the consumer in excess of the minimum payment amount to a balance on which interest is deferred during the last 2 billing cycles immediately preceding the expiration of the period during which interest is deferred.
