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Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

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Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

I have a Discover Open Road card, which paid off and will only be using it for utilities as the interest rate was raised to 19.99% and I will be paying it off monthly.  I previously had a balance of $900 and the minimum payment of $40.  I paid it off last month and this month the balance is $100 with a minimum payment of $40.

 

Kind of strange.  Like I said, I am paying it off in full anyway, but I couldn't find anywhere in my terms that they were raising the percentage for minimum payments.  I just want to understand how my card works if by chance I ever had to carry a balance.

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Tiana


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Re: Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

I received a change in terms notice a while ago for my Discover More, and I remember the $40 minimum payment as being a part of that change.  It's not just your account, tianapb725, I believe the minimums were raised for everybody.
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Re: Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

Okay thanks - I had looked through the paper work I had received from them and must have over looked it.  Not a big deal, but I'm sure glad I paid off the balance last month b/c I can't imagine what the minimum would have been then!

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Re: Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

The percentage wasn't increased, just the minimum amount. The minimum payment for a $900 balance would also have been $40.

 

Discover sent out notices about the new minimum in September ...

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Anonymous
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Re: Discover Card Minimum Payment Change

yea when my Dti shot up to 36% on my kredi karma report I was what the heck? then I remembered the discover new , my balance was only 67
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