My partner has a credit card account with Bank of America. I am a authorized user on the account, which means that I have a card with the same number, and my partner receives the statement for the charges from both her and my credit card. One day we noticed fraudulent charges on the statement, so my partner cancelled the card and requested that new cards be delivered to XXXX us. These cards arrived in the mail and we each began using our new cards. I received a separate statement for my card. My partner called the bank to ask why I was receiving a separate statement. The customer service representative acknowledged the error and apologized, saying that the charges from my card would be transferred over to my partner 's statement, that I did not have to pay the bill, and that I would be issued a new card with the same number as my partner 's card. I did not pay the bill, and I never received the card. My partner called back to Bank of America requesting an explanation, and was told by a different customer service representative that the representative was not able to discuss my card. As it turns out, the card I had been sent as the replacement for my original authorized user card on my partner 's account was actually an updated card for an old Bank of America credit card account that I had not used for years. I had not requested an updated card for this account, and there had been no activity on this card since 2013. When I called Bank of America, the customer service representative told me that I had failed to pay the bill for that card -- which my partner had been told I did not have to pay -- but agreed, based on my explanation, to remove the late fee from the charges. I paid the bill. Later, I discovered that the bank had reported the late payment to the credit agencies, and my credit score decreased dramatically. I called the bank to try to remedy this, but they wrote me a letter stating that " no bank errors have been made concerning XXXX my ] payment record. Therefore, the delinquency on your credit report is valid and will not be removed. '' The initial customer service representative assured my partner that the bank had erred, that they apologized, that they would redirect the charges at issue to my partner 's account, and that I did not have to pay the bill. In light of this, to report a delinquency on my part to the credit agencies is certainly a bank error. It is grossly unfair and highly damaging to me. 
