04/08/2013
We received an IRS Levy on an account and the account receives a direct deposit from Social Security. Can we debit the account for and send the funds to the IRS?
10/08/2012
What is the most current decision on a bank off setting an overdrawn account that gets Social Security deposits?
10/17/2011
We have a customer that has deposited a fraudulent check to an account that only receives Social Security direct deposit. Do we have the right to charge the check back to that account?
04/25/2011
When a customer dies who is receiving a social security check in the middle of the month, how do you determine if the deposit needs to be returned?
09/27/2010
What/where does one report insider banking fraud that includes the vice president, producing fraudulent checks with wrong routing numbers, and handing out wrong direct deposit forms?
04/05/2010
I am reviewing a trust where two individuals are the trustees of a Revocable Trust for their mother. The two individuals, trustees, want to add their mother and a sister as agents. The trust agreement allows for the appointment of agents. They want thier mother's social security check to go into this account that is using a #38 TIN that is not the mother's social security number. Will there be a problem with a direct deposit of social security going into a trust account where the TIN on the account is not the social security number of the person receiving the social security benefit?
09/08/2008
I have a customer that opened three accounts, one for each of her children as they receive Social Security direct deposit benefits. The mother is the signer on each account and the individual child was added as an owner only because they are only nine, eleven and seventeen years of age. The mother wants debit cards in the children’s names so she can keep the account straight as to where she is pulling the money from. Can we issue debit cards to a minor and if so, would the mother have the legal right to use them? How would it be handled if the child’s card was used and they wanted to dispute the transaction?
11/12/2007
I have a very technical GLBA question. It is my understanding that if all employees of the bank are required to have deposit accounts then they are also considered a customer under GLBA. If there happened to be a breach of employee nonpublic information through the HR department, say the payroll vendor was compromised and all employees' social security numbers were released, would this not be considered a breach under GLBA and notification required to the affected customers (employees) along with notice to our regulators? Is it possible since the breach occurred through HR department and was of employees' nonpublic information that it is not defined as a breach under GLBA?
06/25/2007
I am wondering if anyone has any knowledge of what the generally-accepted definition of "substantially regular intervals" is in terms of preauthorized EFTs under Reg E - is it at least every 60 days as is mentioned in 205.10(a)(1)?
04/16/2007
For an account which electronic fund transfers can be made, may the bank send a notice each time with the date, amount, source and account number and not the other information that would be on the monthly statement as opening and closing balance in place of a periodic statement for each monthly cycle in which an electronic fund transfer has occurred? In particular, on a savings account that is normally sent a quarterly statement when no EFT activity has occurred, will the notice mentioned above suffice for a direct deposit to the account in place of the monthly statement?