E*Trade Bank Complaint: Deposits and withdrawals

#1428906 20 Jun 2015

Bank account or service Checking account

Complaint #1428906 submitted on 06/20/2015 relating to E*Trade Bank. Complaint relates to Bank account or service Checking account - Deposits and withdrawals .

Complaint was submitted via Web and sent to the company on Saturday 20th June 2015.

Narrative (may be redacted).

My wife and I file joint tax returns and refunds are issued to both of our names. Federal refund is deposited electronically to the account I specify in Tax Cut software. State of XXXX issues a check that I usually deposit to my account. We do that over a decade. There was never an issue with that. On XX/XX/XXXX I tried to deposit such check by phone to my account ( at E*Trade Bank ) but it was rejected as unreadable - that seldom but sometimes happens. I called them and they said I have to mail it in. But when they received the check, only then they said they could not deposit it to my account, because it was issued to both me AND my wife. This despite they deposited those checks for 15 years every XXXX without a single complaint, and despite me being their customer for even longer than that, and despite both me and my wife have accounts there linked on-line. They suggested that the check may be deposited to our brokerage account since that account is joint account in both of our names. However, a day had passed and I do not see the check deposited in either my checking account or our joint brokerage account. I got an email with the PDF form referring to the name change without explanation. I understood they want my wife to file the name change - because at that bank she still uses her maiden name, and on this refund check she already has my last name. But she did not change the name at marriage, and that change was therefore not recorded on the marriage certificate. She changed it at naturalization. And besides - I am with the form in XXXX, and she and her signature are in XXXX - maybe sometimes during the summer she will find the time to deal with that name change. But we need that check deposited or cashed yesterday, not sometimes in the future. Now their agent can not locate our physical check - she only sees the image of my rejected mobile phone deposit. Which leads me to believe that they were not completely honest with me when they told me the mobile deposit was rejected for readability. If they spoke up about the XXXX names issue, I might have handled the situation differently. But now they are in possession of our check and they are finding an excuse after an excuse for not depositing it, and finally they lost track of it. This is an outrage. They should be held liable for theft.

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