Prior to the 16.10 release, the SSA began using multiple Company IDs, and it was recommended that credit unions consider using Automated Funds Transfers (AFTs) to handle distributions. Beginning the 16.10 release a new cross-reference system will be implemented that will automatically funnel all incoming company IDs from the Social Security Administration and treat them as if they came from one, consistent company ID we’re referring to as the “Primary ID.” With the changes ma  More...

If you or your member notice an account is not being updated (or the additional signer on a loan) you should first try to find out if the loan/additional signer was included in the file sent over to the bureau. You can do this for the most recent reporting cycle by running Tool #658 Print Loan Info Sent to Credit Bureau . If the member loan/additional signer information (defined by METRO 2 as the J1 segment or J2 Segment) is present in that file you need to look further into the following types  More...

The system will advance the next payment due date depending on the payments made during the “payment period” window, which runs from due date to due date (which is not always calendar month). Once the next payment period begins, any payments made will count towards the payment amount due until it is fully satisfied, at which point the due date will advance to the next payment period. Payments may still be made during the current payment period; however, any overpayments will be c  More...

Yes. It is possible to maintain the loan category as long as both loan categories have the same Process Type (E=Closed End, L= LOC, M=Mortgage etc). The maintenance screen also allows for the new category principal G/L which should be used to insure the loan category value is using the correct general ledger number for principal. The member's principal and accrued interest balances will be updated in the general ledger during end-of-day. Therefore, no manual journal entry is necessary.

If you pull credit reports using the CU*BASE online credit bureau access system, credit report data is stored online and can therefore be mined for opportunities. There are a couple of ways you can find this information: Use Tool #976 Where Your Members Borrow This tool pulls trade line data from stored credit report files, showing other financial institutions with whom your members do business. This tool lets you make a direct comparison between your credit union and a competitive FI. F  More...

No. If a loan has been written off by the CU*BASE system and therefore is still considered collectible, it will continue to appear on member statements. If a loan uncollectable it should be closed (charged off) and therefore will not appear on member statements. Currently there is no plan for CU*BASE to suppress certain types of loans or other accounts from appearing on a member's statement. However, you could code the account so no statement is produced. See the Related Q A link below. coll  More...

Because of the complexity of messages that would be needed to handle mortgage payments via a voice response system, payments cannot be applied to 360 loans via CU*Talk audio response. Members will hear the following message if they attempt to transfer money to a 360 mortgage loan in CU*Talk audio response: A payment is not allowed at this time. Please contact the Credit Union for more information .

Access the Bankruptcy topics to learn more http://help.cubase.org/doc/stepbystep/stepbystep.htm#Bankruptcy.htm See the Related Q A below.

Flex Loans allows members in It’s Me 247 to request a change in the term of their loan, which results in a payment change. This is permitted on configured products with monthly payment frequencies. The loan modification request can be immediate if the member is qualified and your credit union activates auto approvals. Otherwise, the member’s request is sent to the LOS loan queue ( Tool #2 Work/View Loan Application Status ) to be approved or denied by your loan officer. First, it   More...

Yes, if an online note is programmed in CU*BASE, it will be presented to and signed digitally prior to the loan funding. If the member cancels out and does not sign the form, the loan will not be created. Instead, the system will submit a loan application to be worked in the LOS Loan Queue (Tool #2). Deposit Secured loans do require special loan forms specifically coded for this type of offer. Your standard loan forms cannot be used with this feature without the special coding. f you are anx  More...

Depending on your browser or your device, the date picker will vary. For mobile devices, the loan form currently tries to prompt the native date picker of the device. There are variances between iOS and Android that might be confusing. For the iPhone, the date picker is pretty straightforward and it's pretty easy to change the year. However, on an Android it's not as obvious. The trick is to tape on the year itself, which pops up a rolling list of other years to choose from. See   More...

Flex Loans allows members in It’s Me 247 to request a change in the term of their loan which results in a payment change. This is permitted on configured products with monthly payment frequencies. The loan modification request can be immediate if the member is qualified and your credit union activates auto approvals. Otherwise, the member’s request is sent to the LOS loan queue ( Tool #2 Work/View Loan Application Status ) to be approved or denied by your loan officer. While using   More...

If a person or organization is added to lending denial of service block list, an employee cannot open a loan under any membership owned by that SSN/TIN. They will see messaging that the “SSN/TIN appears on block list” directly after selecting the membership when attempting to create a loan application for that SSN/TIN in CU*BASE. Additionally, for online loan applications, the loan officer will see messaging “On Fraud Block List” when working an incoming loan application   More...

Flex Loans allows members in It’s Me 247 to request a change in the term of their loan which results in a payment change. This is permitted on configured products with monthly payment frequencies. The loan modification request can be immediate if the member is qualified and your credit union activates auto approvals. Otherwise, the member’s request is sent to the LOS loan queue ( Tool #2 Work/View Loan Application Status ) to be approved or denied by your loan officer. Flex Lo  More...

Option 1: Create a Misc. Member Account Form with the appropriate text, and add a procedure for your loan processors to print this form whenever a loan like this is created. Since the CU*BASE online credit bureau system has no way to know if a credit score is used in the underwriting decision, nor whether the credit report was used for a mortgage or home equity loan, this will be manual process. HINT: This step could be added to the Electronic Checklist feature for your mortgage and home equity  More...

One reason could be that the member's loan account is not actually attached to the category for which you increased the disbursement limit. Here's the usual procedure for increasing a limit when the category also needs to be adjusted: First verify the correct loan category code by viewing the Visa loan account in Member Account Inquiry . If the member's disbursement limit needs to be greater than the category will allow, you first need to launch Tool #458 Loan Category Configuratio  More...

In this example the AFT was set with a payment date control of “2=Make this payment ONLY if a payment is not made another way for their membership.” On the date of the scheduled AFT, the AFT will look to see if the payment is made on the loan. If the amount in the From: account is does not satisfy the AFT, the amount paid will go in the partial pay field of the AFT . (The loan partial pay field is only evaluated the first time the AFT is processed.) From that point forward, an AFT  More...

The large loan payment was applied as a principal-only payment, which does not move the next payment due date on the loan. When the payment was reversed using the 95 reverse loan payment code, the due date was backed up and made the loan delinquent. That evening, the Auto Funds Transfer system tried to satisfy the delinquency on the loan because the delinquency control flag was turned on in the AFT record. Whenever you reverse a loan payment, make sure to review the loan due date before an  More...

There are multiple ways to do this, but here's one of our favorite methods. Launch Tool #1855 Lending Opportunities Dashboard Use the Loans to Analyze button Choose a loan type from the list (Auto Loans, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Unsecured, or Other Secured) and use Enter to return to the dashboard The top two thirds of the screen shows statistics from your portfolio for that type of loan The bottom third of the screen will show opportunities, divided into two groups: members without that  More...

This can happen on occasion because of how the Partial pay* field on the loan account record works. For members who make weekly deposits toward a monthly payment due, once in a while, when the calendar weeks fall just right, that weekly amount might accumulate in Partial pay to the point where a small payment made early in the period, coupled with some leftover money in the Partial pay field from the last period, is just enough to bump the due date forward a period. Remember that a period in  More...

If the correct escrow account appears on the loan suffix, make sure the escrow account is linked to the correct loan suffix. The escrow account may have been attached to another loan suffix that is now closed. (This happens more frequently with credit unions that only have one escrow suffix.) To research use Tool #20 Update Account Information , enter in the account base, and use Enter. Select the escrow account from the listing to view the loan suffix attached to it. If needed, update the lo  More...

Yes. There is an Amortization Default option available in each of your Loan Product Code configurations which allows credit unions to default amortization criteria such as: Delinquency Fine Code, Rate, Payment Frequency, # of Payments etc. The system will then default this value into the applicable fields when creating a new loan request. These defaults are intended to provide consistency for all new loan requests, but can be changed/edited during the loan request process if necessary.

The IRS, which makes changes to tax form layouts almost every year, recently added this new informational box to form 1098 to report the balance on a mortgage account as of January 1 of that same tax year. Each year on January 1 we capture the loan balance on all loan accounts in a special file, and then when tax forms are created at the end of the year we can use that figure. Therefore, for loans that were opened in a prior tax year, this balance is usually easy for members to understand.   More...

Credit card finance charges can be confusing as they are different from a normal simple daily interest consumer loan, because billing cycles play a part in the finance charge calculation. Both current and previous billing cycles are required for the calculation to qualify for a configured grace period. Grace period flags are determined by the credit union and disclosed in their credit card disclosures. Finance charges are waived if the account qualifies for the grace period configured in the loa  More...

No. The monthly billing will show a count of Active Memberships and Written Off Loans . The Written Off Loans count will have a price of zero and is excluded from the Active Membership count. Written Off Loans are defined as loan records with a WRTOFF (write off ) flag equal to 1 . For a discussion of the difference between a written-off loan (debt that is still collectible) vs. a charged-off loan (where the loan has been closed), refer to the Write-Off/Charge-Off Tools booklet lin  More...