This policy statement applies to all accounts.
Our
policy is to make funds from your cash and check deposits available
to you on the same day we receive your deposit. At that time, you
can withdraw the funds in cash and we will use the funds to pay
checks that you have written.
Please remember that even after we have made funds available to you,
and you have withdrawn the funds, you are still responsible for
checks you deposit that are returned to us unpaid and for any other
problems involving your deposit.
For determining the availability of your deposits, every day is a
business day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. If
you make a deposit before closing on a business day that we are
open, we will consider that day to be the day of your deposit.
However, if you make a deposit after closing or on a day we are not
open, we will consider that the deposit was made on the next
business day we are open.
If we cash a check for you that is drawn on another bank, we may
withhold the availability of a corresponding amount of funds that
are already in your account. Those funds will be available at the
time funds from the check we cashed would have been available if you
had deposited it.
If we accept for deposit a check that is drawn on another bank, we
may make funds from the deposit available for withdrawal immediately
but delay your availability to withdraw a corresponding amount of
funds that you have on deposit in another account with us. The funds
in the other account would then not be available for withdrawal
until the time periods that are described elsewhere in this
disclosure for the type of check that you deposited.
Longer
Delays May Apply
Case-by-case delays.
In some cases, we will not make all of the funds that you deposit by
check available to you on the same day we receive your deposit.
Depending on the type of check that you deposit, funds may not be
available until the fifth business day after the day of your
deposit. The first $100 of your deposits, however, may be available
on the same day.
If we are not going to make all of the funds from your deposit
available on the same day we receive your deposit, we will notify
you at the time you make your deposit. We will also tell you when
the funds will be available. If your deposit is not made directly to
one of our employees, or if we decide to take this action after you
have left the premises, we will mail you the notice by the day after
we receive your deposit.
If you will need the funds from a deposit right away, you should ask
us when the funds will be available.
Safeguard exceptions.
In addition, funds you deposit by check may be delayed for a longer
period under the following circumstances:
We believe a check you deposit will not be paid.
You deposit checks totaling more than $5,000 on any one day.
You redeposit a check that has been returned unpaid.
You have overdrawn your account repeatedly in the last six months.
There is an emergency, such as failure of computer or communications
equipment.
We will notify you if we delay your ability to withdraw funds for
any of these reasons, and we will tell you when the funds will be
available. They will generally be available no later than the
eleventh business day after the day of your deposit.
Special
Rules For New Accounts
If you are a new member, the following special rules will apply
during the first 30 days your account is open.
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account will be
available on the day we receive the deposit. Funds from deposits of
cash, wire transfers, and the first $5,000 of a day's total deposits
of cashier's, certified, teller's, traveler's, and federal, state
and local government checks will be available on the same day as the
day of your deposit if the deposit meets certain conditions. For
example, the checks must be payable to you (and you may have to use
a special deposit slip). The excess over $5,000 will be available on
the ninth business day after the day of your deposit. If your
deposit of these checks (other than a U.S. Treasury check) is not
made in person to one of our employees, the first $5,000 will not be
available until the second business day after the day of your
deposit.
Funds from all other check deposits will be available on the ninth
business day after the day of your deposit. |