XX/XX/2012, my husband was getting ready to retire. We submitted papers to XXXX Bank America, to proceed with a refinance to lower our interest rate. Rates were coming down and this was an opportunity for us. We proceeded with home appraisal etc. The bank lost our paperwork and delayed our application. In XX/XX/XXXX when I finally pressed, I learned that we came in with a good appraisal and could go ahead, they were sorry they lost the paperwork. When they put things back in place, they were sorry, we could not qualify because my husband was retiring and our planned income would be that much less. Had they processed properly in XX/XX/XXXX - we would have cleared that hurdle. It has been XXXX years since and we continue to pay a larger interest XXXX when we could have qualified for a XXXX (at that time). (Also at that time, there was a glitch with XXXX having incorrect data, which we did follow up on and straightened out). That would have saved us more than $XXXX. month. We have tried to refinance at a lower interest rate XXXX times since and Bank AmericaXXXX and now XXXX Bank have denied us. We cannot qualify to pay less, yet we continue to pay our mortgage, our taxes and have an excellent credit rating maintained over more than XXXX years at XXXX. How is it that we cannot qualify TO PAY LESS?