Citizen's Bank Bennington VT-Rules for special people Complaint

Citizens Bank has special Rules for those special Customers - Not informing people of expiration dates for Stop Payments, and policy for Cashi

Posted By: Donlord on 11/6/2009

Location: Bennington, VT

On October 2, 2009 My Social Security Disability direct deposit hit my checking account. On this same day a check that was reported to be lost from my old landlord in March (Which I replaced with a bank check) was cashed. I only found this out when I needed to get more insulin (I'm a type 1 diabetic and I have Secondary Progressive Multiple Slerosis) Well I couldn't get my insulin because I my account was overdrawn.

I called the automated system and found out that my old landlord had cashed this stale check. I called claims and told them about it, and dealt with my local branch of citizens and the claim department. I was charged $681 dollars for bounching the checks that I had out there, and for being over drawn. They would not even refund me the money for my insulin. Now this all happened 5 weeks ago, and I got smart today and called the Bennington VT Citizens and asked them there policy on cashing a stale dated check, I was told that they wouldn't cash a stale dated check at all, if it was over 6 months old it would not be cashed. This customer service representative even checked with other tellers and was told the same thing. So now I called the claims department figuring that I was actually helping them out. I was told that someone else was now handeling my claim. When I spoke to him he told me that he couldn't tell me anything because he had just received a letter from the OCC today that I had filed weeks ago, and I would have to wait until the middle of next week for his letter to get to me. I was so mad. Now all of this stress has caused me to go into an acute flair with my MS and then I had a reaction to the Solu-medrol and was hospitalized for three days (just got out today)
Well I decided to call back the Bennington VT Citizens for some more clarification.


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    dan gordon (11/06/2009)      
    I think you need to sue the landlord in small claims court for trying to collect twice. The bank isn't going to be responsible.

    goduke (11/06/2009)      
    Agreed Dan. The checks go through automatically. There's no way that they see the date on the check.

    CSD (11/06/2009)      
    I would think that the landlord would be more at fault here. And you also stated they didnt even refund you for your insulin. Why would they pay for your insulin?

    Donlord (11/07/2009)      
    First off the check was cashed by a teller at the branch, The stop payment had just gone off the check 2 weeks prior to the stale check being presented for payment. I was told by the head teller at the bank that they do not cash stale dated checks, it is their policy, especially a starter check, which is what this check was. And as far as paying for my insulin the reason I did not have the funds in my account is because when the bank posted this check, they posted it to my account before posting all of the smaller debit, and credit transactions that happened on the same day, hence they could get mupltiple $39 dollar fees out of me instead o... more >>

    goduke (11/07/2009)      
    Your remedy is against the landlord. He's the one who cashed the check which had already been replaced by you. Why aren't you upset at him?

    PepperElf (11/07/2009)      
    can you file a police report against the landlord for stolen money?

    goduke (11/07/2009)      
    Pepper, I believe the police are going to say it's a civil matter, as it's probably that the landlord found the check, didn't remember that there was a replacement and just cashed it. There's a pretty strong civil remedy though, and the consequential damages will also come into play. The OP would rather go at the bank because it seems like they are rich and it would be easier to get the cash from them.

    PepperElf (11/07/2009)      
    good point. only other thing i can think of is a lawyer then


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