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Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

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  • Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

    hi all

    I have recently posted on another thread in this group looking for some advice with regards to a payday lender and the aggressive collection action taken by the third party to which they sold the debt on to.
    It was mentioned that I should contact the Payday Lenders with whom I had significant loans to make a complaint with regards to affordability.
    With Lending Stream alone, I had 20 loans in a 10 month period, sometimes 4 loans in the same month, and applying for loans immediately after paying off the last one. I have Bi polar which became extremely bad after spiraling into debt with these lenders, unfortunately I found it impossible to manage the debts and could only meet the repayments by borrowing from other lenders/sometimes the same lender to repay these loans and to meet my rent obligations. When I was 'high' I would believe that I was amazing with money and lend uncontrollably moving money around thinking I could juggle everything but unfortunately during the extreme lows I was unable to manage this and fell into a terrible mess.

    I have had a response from lending stream saying a big fat NO, basically that they checked my Experian score which was 692 at the time (I have never had a score as high as that - if my score was there I wouldn' thave been using a payday lender) They also said that based on my income and given expenditures I should have been able to afford their debts. They disregarded my complaint that they should have noticed that there was a pattern emerging that I was struggling, lender larger amounts more frequently and immediately after paying them off. They advised that they had at times refused me a loan, but htat was never for more than a few days and my list of loans showed that throughout the 10 months that they loaned money to me, there was not a single month where they did not lend to me.
    the reason that I was able to repay the loans was because I was borrowing all over the place trying to keep my head above water. if they had checked my credit file they would have seen my rapidly deteriating financial situation.

    I would like to escalate to the FOS. Before I do that, can you please advise if there is anything that I will need to prepare? I have asked them to send me the proof that my credit history was ever 692 - but im not sure if there is anything else I will need.

    thank you so much for your help

    Lini
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    Re: Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

    tagging [MENTION=48934]Debt Camel[/MENTION] to help you xx
    Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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    • #3
      Re: Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

      Hi, take a look at step 3 of [MENTION=48934]Debt Camel[/MENTION] advice here
      COMPLETING AN N180 DIRECTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE (SMALL CLAIMS TRACK) GUIDE

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        Re: Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

        Don't bother to try to reason with them - LS don't listen. Lots of people have said the LS credit score isn't close to reality.

        As soon as the time gets to 8 weeks, or if you have a letter from them saying Final Response, send the case to the FOS.

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        • #5
          Re: Affordability Claim for Interest Refund - Lending Stream

          Great, their email was a final response so I'll contact the FOS

          thanyou x

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