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Find a Location

Schools First Federal Credit Union has 31 locations, listed below.

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    • Schools First Federal Credit Union

      15442 Newport Ave Tustin, CA 92780-6473

    • Schools First Federal Credit Union

      17500 Bloomfield Ave Cerritos, CA 90703

    • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

      9125 Imperial Hwy #A Downey, CA 90242

    • Schools First Federal Credit Union

      223 N Jackson #113 Glendale, CA 91206

    • Schools First Federal Credit Union

      43816 15th St Lancaster, CA 93534

    Business ProfileforSchools First Federal Credit Union

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    HeadquartersMulti Location Business
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    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.79/5stars

    Average of 14 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    56 complaints closed in last 3 years

    19 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Overview

    This business offers financial products and services.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Schools First Federal Credit Union has 31 locations, listed below.

    *This company may be headquartered in or have additional locations in another country. Please click on the country abbreviation in the search box below to change to a different country location.

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      • Schools First Federal Credit Union

        15442 Newport Ave Tustin, CA 92780-6473

      • Schools First Federal Credit Union

        17500 Bloomfield Ave Cerritos, CA 90703

      • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

        9125 Imperial Hwy #A Downey, CA 90242

      • Schools First Federal Credit Union

        223 N Jackson #113 Glendale, CA 91206

      • Schools First Federal Credit Union

        43816 15th St Lancaster, CA 93534

      Headquarters
      15442 Newport Ave, Tustin, CA 92780-6473
      Years in Business:
      89
      Business Started:
      5/19/1934
      Licensing Information:
      This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
      Type of Entity:
      Sole Proprietorship
      Business Management
      • Mr. Bill Cheney, CEO
      • Ms. Lori Garcia, VP of Member Experience
      • Ms. Diana Cruz, Member Service Experience AM
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Bill Cheney, CEO

      Customer Contact

      • Mr. Bill Cheney, CEO
      • Ms. Lori Garcia, VP of Member Experience
      • Ms. Elizabeth Cabral, Accounting Manager
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      Customer Complaints

      56 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      03/05/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Service or Repair Issues
      Status:
      Answered
      Within one hour, and in spite of my timely payments for over a year on my accounts at Schoolsfirst as well as my timely payment history, we were turned down for a small loan. We may have considered paying the higher percentage rate, yet still within 1 hour, the decision was rather hastily made in my opinion Their website claims to help with financial needs and they have helped us in the past. My daughter and I have been members since 2011, and have many accounts with them. We did not even have a counter offer from them. And because my payments are always timely, SF invited me to skip a payment as a good faith offer. Now, as we spoke to 3 representatives, we told them we are currently experiencing some financial difficulty.. It has been our experience that Schoolsfirst has worked along with us in the past. This time they seemed unwilling to not even give us a counter offer, just a cold form letter Email with 2 blank bullets. one, not being accurate out of 4 bullets. They could not come up with 2 more reasons for a denial. It is a reality that Covid-19 has had a very bad effect on us, having both of our teaching jobs cut because of school closures, I am now a retired school teacher and in need of help. They say they "made every effort" but did not explain what they were. It didn't seem to matter that we have been good long term customers since 2011. I have an excellent payment history, which seems to not have been considered.
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      Customer Reviews

      14 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Engelbert S

      2 stars

      09/21/2023

      I was told in Feb 2023 by *************************** that a few bills I received would be paid by Schools First. One was due in April & another in June. These were both Supplemental bills which I now learned are to be paid by the home owners. We received approx. $500 in late fees for not paying on time. This has now been paid by Schools First out of our Escrow Acct but the fee was still paid by us so now we owe $******* to our escrow Account by January. I don't feel its fair that we have to pay a late fee from our own pockets when this information was told to me. We had the money ready to pay earlier this yr which is why I called to make sure who had to pay this. After I got the late fee notice I called Schools first multiple times and on 9.20.23 I received WRONG information again by another employee in the ******** They would not give me her name but her initials were DRY. She told me we would have a new mortgage amount of $3,075.26 and that we would be refunded $7,100 because our county taxes dropped to $1400.00 which didnt make sense. I asked her if she was 100% sure about this and she said yes. When I called back on 9.21.23 I was told by another gentleman that the information was incorrect. That we actually owed ******* because SchoolsFirst made that payment for us. I never received a call or an update on why we had to pay or what was happening. I constantly had to call for an update/status. I will be filing a complaint with the BBB. I know calls our recorded so hopefully they can listen and hear that I asked if this was just extra money that we had and that we could use it however and that ***** confirmed this. I will also file a complaint with ****************************************************************************** and any other **********/federal site to plead my case. Not only were we assessed a $500 fee for being late but we owe $3300 which is not something we were budgeting for.

      Schools First Federal Credit Union Response

      09/25/2023

      We have received this review and believe it rises to the level of a complaint. We will submit this in our complaint case management system and work with our department and ******************** directly.Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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