Availability To Withdraw Funds At The Greater Metro FCU
This policy statement applies to all accounts.
Our policy is to make funds from your check deposits
available to you on the second business day after the day
we receive your deposit, with the first $200 available on
the first business day after the day of your deposit.
Electronic direct deposits will be available on the day we
receive the deposit. Cash, wire transfers, and some
specified check deposits will also be available before the
second business day, as detailed below. Once the funds
are available, you can withdraw them 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available to you, and you have withdrawn the funds, you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.
Same-Day Availability
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account
will be available on the day we receive the deposit.
Immediate Availability
Funds from the following deposits will be available
immediately.
- U.S. Treasury checks that are payable to you.
- Wire transfers, including preauthorized credits such as
- Social Security Benefits and payroll payments.
- Checks drawn on Greater Metro Federal Credit Union.
- Travelers checks
If you make the deposit in person to one of our
employees, funds from the following deposits are also
available immediately:
- Cash.
- State and local government checks that are payable to
you.
- Cashier's, certified, and teller's checks that are payable
to you.
- Federal Reserve Bank checks, Federal Home Loan
Bank checks, and postal money orders, if these items
are payable to you.
If you do not make your deposit in person to one of our
employees (for example, if you mail the deposit), funds
from these deposits will be available on the first business
day after the day we receive your deposit.
Other Check Deposits Subject to Second-Day
Availability
The first $200 from a deposit of other checks will be
available on the first business day after the day of your
deposit. The remaining funds will be available on the
second business day after the day of your deposit.
For example, if you deposit a check of $700 on a
Monday, $200 of the deposit is available on Tuesday. The
remaining $500 is available on Wednesday.
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
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 seventh business day after the day of
your deposit.
SPECIAL RULES FOR NEW ACCOUNTS
If you are a new member, the following special rules
may 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 first business day after 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 eleventh business day after the day of your deposit.
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