I am very dissatisfied with Vystar Credit Union. After doing business with them through a car loan for the past three years with my payments made every month, they refuse to make an exception for a “skip a loan” payment request that I literally have had to call them about 4 separate times after the hurricane Milton hit Florida which is where I live. Due to extenuating circumstances I wasn’t aware that my deductible on a new insurance policy for my car that I purchased was too high until it was too late for the new insurance company to switch the deductible in a reasonable amount of time for the skip my loan payment arrangement to be approved. The reason they would not change the deductible in a reasonable amount of time was because the hurricane was impending, and they were refusing to make any policy changes until the hurricane passed due to risk and there was also a waiting period after the hurricane past that had to pass before it would be updated. I explained the situation multiple times to Vystar agents and even had my request escalated to a supervisor by the 3rd time speaking with them. I submitted my request originally within the 10 day grace period that they give you to submit any requests for skip my loan payments, and was denied because the insurance deductible was too high. Subsequently I submitted two additional requests a total of three requests to try to get this get the loan payment arrangement approved. I explained multiple times after multiple phone calls that literally took almost an hour each time that the reason the deductible was not updated in time for it to reflect in their system was due to hurricane Milton. Even with that being stated and I even sent proof from the insurance company being sent to them, they refused. Literally no grace for a natural disaster that I had no control of that impacted my ability to immediately update insurance coverage. I did try to change my insurance to the correct deductible in as timely of a manner that I was aware, but was unable to do so because of the hurricane, and they literally won’t budge about making an exception. Not to mention I just had a baby and I’m tight on money b/c I am on leave, so that was the whole reason for the request. Their only alternatives are for me to make the payment asap and submit a new request for the following months or to do a deferment which would entail a hard credit check among other documentation that has to be submitted. Also they are terrible about calling back, I had to call to check the status of each request every couple of days. It is absolutely ridiculous and I would never want to do business with them again.