homemommy83 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Seriously though, I am going to call them at 9 a.m. sharp, but has this ever happened to anyone else. Boy did I like the sound of my checking account balance this morning- but sadly it won't stay that way-haha. Brenda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Oh wow. That never happened to me. What a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I once had the bank record a $300 deposit as $3000. That was kind of fun. But also annoying to have a mistake to deal with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martha in GA Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Good luck getting it straightened out. I hate when I have to put in tons of effort to fix someone else's mistake! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Good luck trying to explain that one. Hope you get the right person the first time you call. You may want to demand a supervisor so you don't have to explain over and over again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemommy83 Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 ​I got a hold of them and they said that this was a widespread mistake and that they will be reversing these mistakes out of peoples bank accounts over the next couple of days. :sad: -lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I had the opposite happen once - IRS, back when I was a lowly grad student, sent me a letter stating I owed (if I recall correctly) $!4,500. That year I had EARNED $14,500. 100% taxed :-0 I called right away, and luckily got an IRS employee having a good day who laughed WITH me (rather than at me) and fixed it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I had that with the state once. They overpaid me about $27,000. It took nearly a year to get it straightened out as to who to send the money to, how much was owed them, the fact that I really was overpaid, etc. Hopefully yours is easy to fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixpix5 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I had the opposite happen once - IRS, back when I was a lowly grad student, sent me a letter stating I owed (if I recall correctly) $!4,500. That year I had EARNED $14,500. 100% taxed :-0 I called right away, and luckily got an IRS employee having a good day who laughed WITH me (rather than at me) and fixed it. Oh my goodness I would have had a heart attack! So glad you could laugh and get it fixed. This wasn't tax related but a few months ago I received our water bill and it was over 800 dollars. I instantly called and they said I definitely owed it. They would send someone out to make sure our meter was working. In the meantime, she told me to make sure we didn't have a leak or something of that nature. The meter person comes out and says it was fine. I tell her over and over we have no leak and something is wrong on their end. She smuggly told me these things are computer logged and generated so they don't make mistakes. After tears and frustration because no way did we have 800 dollars to drop on a water bill...I pulled out all of my past water bills from the filing cabinet and started going over them painstakenly. When I start looking at the meter reading days what they had done was taken a meter reading from 6 months prior and subtracted it from our current reading! I called and the woman said I must have read the bill wrong. I had her pull it up, sure enough she saw it and still said "I don't know what I am seeing, this still might not be on our end so I will get back to you." Almost a month later they finally send a corrected bill (I obviously hadn't paid it yet) and it had a late fee assessed. Hahaha!! I was pretty maniacal at that point. My words were less than kind. I was so frustrated. It made me wonder how many other people had this happen and just paid it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I had the opposite happen once - IRS, back when I was a lowly grad student, sent me a letter stating I owed (if I recall correctly) $!4,500. That year I had EARNED $14,500. 100% taxed :-0 I called right away, and luckily got an IRS employee having a good day who laughed WITH me (rather than at me) and fixed it. :ohmy: That would have been a jolt. I'm glad it was straightened out quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Many moons ago, when we were broke, but self employed, newlyweds, we owed the IRS $250 on tax day. Great...I wrote out a check, put it in the mail and forgot about it. Until my bank account become overdrawn....it seems I had ripped off a blank check along with the one I wrote. The IRS in it's infinite wisdom CASHED it for the amount we owed. BLANK. No name, no amount, no signature---someone rubber stamped Internal Revenue Service and scrawled $250 on it and deposited it. Oh yeah, along with the legit check I'd written. What enraged me was that my bank paid it. No questions, no phone calls. Those were the days before big banks and we were well known clients. We got it sorted out fairly quickly, but it pointed out that the big government machine will chomp on anything you put in it's way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Oh my goodness I would have had a heart attack! So glad you could laugh and get it fixed. This wasn't tax related but a few months ago I received our water bill and it was over 800 dollars. I instantly called and they said I definitely owed it. They would send someone out to make sure our meter was working. In the meantime, she told me to make sure we didn't have a leak or something of that nature. The meter person comes out and says it was fine. I tell her over and over we have no leak and something is wrong on their end. She smuggly told me these things are computer logged and generated so they don't make mistakes. After tears and frustration because no way did we have 800 dollars to drop on a water bill...I pulled out all of my past water bills from the filing cabinet and started going over them painstakenly. When I start looking at the meter reading days what they had done was taken a meter reading from 6 months prior and subtracted it from our current reading! I called and the woman said I must have read the bill wrong. I had her pull it up, sure enough she saw it and still said "I don't know what I am seeing, this still might not be on our end so I will get back to you." Almost a month later they finally send a corrected bill (I obviously hadn't paid it yet) and it had a late fee assessed. Hahaha!! I was pretty maniacal at that point. My words were less than kind. I was so frustrated. It made me wonder how many other people had this happen and just paid it. That's insane! And yeah, computers never make mistakes. Nope. never. Not at all. What were you thinking? I mean, really. Seriously, though, makes me want to go look at my past water and electricity bills! Or go off-grid . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 That's insane! And yeah, computers never make mistakes. Nope. never. Not at all. What were you thinking? I mean, really. Seriously, though, makes me want to go look at my past water and electricity bills! Or go off-grid . . . Computers make mistakes because they are programmed by humans and can only do what we tell them to do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Too funny! And WHOA - that was a fast refund! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Computers make mistakes because they are programmed by humans and can only do what we tell them to do. And they humans have become too dim to notice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemommy83 Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Too funny! And WHOA - that was a fast refund! Indiana​ ​refunds in an average of 8 days-WOOHOO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Uh oh, they made that mistake for a lot of people? I hope folks aren't spending that windfall! The state will DEFINITELY take it back without advance warning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemommy83 Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Uh oh, they made that mistake for a lot of people? I hope folks aren't spending that windfall! The state will DEFINITELY take it back without advance warning. ​They said it was a system wide mistake, but that they caught it yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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