Study Says FL Has Some Of The Highest Rates Of Bank Complaints

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Volusia County, FL-A new study by the online site NerdWallet finds Florida is among the top states in the nation when it comes to consumer complaints about banking. NerdWallet looked at rates of complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over the past year and found that of the top 25 for metro areas with the highest per capita complaints, five of them were in FL. Florida ranked 7th highest in the nation per 100 thousand residents. The website crunched numbers on more than 168,000 formal complaints through November of this year. In the first 11 months of the year, Florida residents filed 1664 banking complaints, 1305 credit card complaints, and almost 3,000 credit reporting complaints. 2016 Southern Stone Communications Copyright