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Bank Overdraft Fee Class Action Lawsuit

Annoyed with being charged multiple NSF & bank overdraft fees?

Bank Overdraft Fee Class Action Lawsuit
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Bank Overdraft Fee Lawsuit Investigation | Non-sufficient Funds (NSF) Fee Lawyers

In the wake of numerous bank overdraft fee class action lawsuits, banks have received national attention for a number of unfair practices, from questionable overdraft charges for recurring payments to reordering of credits and debits to push customers into overdrafts, allowing the banks to collect bank overdraft fees.

Another issue some consumers are reporting with their banks is the assessment of multiple NSF fees, or non-sufficient funds fees, for a single transaction. Shamis & Gentile, P.A. is investigating bank overdraft and NSF Fees charged by many banks and credit unions.

Bank Overdraft Fee For Recurring Payments

Setting up automatic bill pay for those monthly recurring payments or bills can simplify your life, or it can cause you a headache when you are hit with an overdraft fee.

Shamis & Gentile, P.A. is investigating banks that are charging their clients for overdraft fees when a recurring payment causes your account to go into overdraft.

For example: a customer may be charged more than one overdraft fee for a single recurring transaction that fails to go through. Essentially, the bank would charge one NSF (or overdraft fee) as it should, after the transaction fails to go through initially. But then, a bank might attempt to process the recurring transaction a second time soon thereafter, already knowing the account has insufficient funds, thus being able to charge a second NSF (or overdraft fee).

An example of this would be you have $50 in your account. Your membership at your gym tries to make its monthly payment of $65. Your bank hits you with an NSF fee (or overdraft fee) of $35 because there isn’t enough money to cover the transaction. THEN – the very next day your gym tries the recurring payment again, and your bank hits you with another $35 NSF fee (or overdraft fee).

Reordering Transactions To Create Bank Overdraft Fee

One tactic that banks are accused of using to increase their profits from overdraft fees is reordering transactions on accounts. That means that regardless of what order transactions occurred in on a single day, some banks process the largest transactions first. That can lead to a lot of extra fees for a person to pay.

For example, say a man spends $10, $20, $50 and $100 (in that order) in four transactions on one day, having $140 in his account. Either way, the account will likely still go into overdraft. But, if the account is debited in the order the purchases occurred, then only the final transaction will result in an overdraft fee of $35. However, if the transactions are processed from largest to smallest, then only the $100 purchase will be covered, leaving the customer to pay $35 for each of the final three transactions—for a total of $105 in charges.

Not all banks charge a flat $35 overdraft fee. Fees run from $19 up to $35. Some banks have tiered overdraft fees, so that the first overdraft transaction in a certain period costs one amount but any more overdraft transactions cost more.

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