Due to a new job I started on Jan 3 of this year, I put in my 2-weeks notice at my previous employer, which is based out of California. They informed me that they would be mailing my final check for my last hours worked and to buy back my unused vacation hours. I received this check before my last day on the job. At that point, they owed me nothing more.
Well, they have always paid me via direct-deposit split across 2 accounts. If I would have stayed working there, Jan 13 would have been my pay day. Well, Jan 13 I received a notice that a direct deposit has been made in my account. I check and see that they've deposited a normal 80 hour pay check into both accounts. I call and tell them and they put in a reversal. Well as soon as the reversal happens there's another deposit for the same thing, in both accounts. So they paid me, reversed it, and paid it again.
Problem is, I had a portion of these paychecks thrown into my "play money" account which is an account I want to close. I spent the account down to $3 and had planned on going into the bank to officially close it out, now there's $XXX + my $3 in this account. My monthly service fee is $5, so when that gets pulled out, I will owe my previous employer $2, which if they ever reverse this, it'll put my account into the negative. The other problem is, I've called them multiple times and have talked with 2 different people and they're not seeing that they've paid me again after reversing their initial over-payment. I've offered to send copies of my bank statement, but they don't really seem to be too concerned about it and have told me they're looking into it.
So, what happens in these situations? Is there a time limit that goes by that makes this money mine? Not necessarily for spending, I know it's not free money for me to steal, but I want to close this account out and now I can't because of this money. So I'm thinking about pulling it out and putting it into the other account they've deposited money into, that way if they ever see what happened they can pull 100% out of 1 account, assuming that doesn't complicate things for them even more or if there are legalities that state they cannot pull out more than they've deposited from one account. I don't want to get into any legal trouble by pulling that money out, closing the account down, and have them come after me for the remaining amount, which I would still have, just not in the account I originally did.
Any tips, advice, ...?
Well, they have always paid me via direct-deposit split across 2 accounts. If I would have stayed working there, Jan 13 would have been my pay day. Well, Jan 13 I received a notice that a direct deposit has been made in my account. I check and see that they've deposited a normal 80 hour pay check into both accounts. I call and tell them and they put in a reversal. Well as soon as the reversal happens there's another deposit for the same thing, in both accounts. So they paid me, reversed it, and paid it again.
Problem is, I had a portion of these paychecks thrown into my "play money" account which is an account I want to close. I spent the account down to $3 and had planned on going into the bank to officially close it out, now there's $XXX + my $3 in this account. My monthly service fee is $5, so when that gets pulled out, I will owe my previous employer $2, which if they ever reverse this, it'll put my account into the negative. The other problem is, I've called them multiple times and have talked with 2 different people and they're not seeing that they've paid me again after reversing their initial over-payment. I've offered to send copies of my bank statement, but they don't really seem to be too concerned about it and have told me they're looking into it.
So, what happens in these situations? Is there a time limit that goes by that makes this money mine? Not necessarily for spending, I know it's not free money for me to steal, but I want to close this account out and now I can't because of this money. So I'm thinking about pulling it out and putting it into the other account they've deposited money into, that way if they ever see what happened they can pull 100% out of 1 account, assuming that doesn't complicate things for them even more or if there are legalities that state they cannot pull out more than they've deposited from one account. I don't want to get into any legal trouble by pulling that money out, closing the account down, and have them come after me for the remaining amount, which I would still have, just not in the account I originally did.
Any tips, advice, ...?
