Audi: Financial services defers payments for hurricane Katrina victims

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Audi: Financial services defers payments for hurricane Katrina victims

Responding to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Audi Financial Services, the finance arm of Audi of America, Inc., has announced that they will defer payments, forgo late charges and suspend interest for their customers affected by the disaster.

Audi Financial Services customers living in counties and parishes of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama that have been declared disaster areas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency will have their retail loans automatically extended and lease payments deferred for 90 days from their most recent due dates. Additionally, customers will not be responsible for late charges during this period.

For more information, Audi Financial Services customers please call 1-888-237-2834. Additionally, letters have been mailed in the hope that some mail service may be resumed.

"At this very difficult time for our customers, we want to try and help ease some of the hardship affected by such suffered," said Kevin Kelly, Audi Financial Services President and CEO.