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FUNDS AVAILABILITY POLICY DISCLOSURE

as of July 1, 2020 

This disclosure describes your ability to withdraw funds at Y-12 Federal Credit Union. It only applies to the availability of funds in transaction accounts. The Credit Union reserves the right to delay the availability of funds deposited to accounts that are not transaction accounts for periods longer than those disclosed in this policy. Please ask us if you have questions about which accounts are affected by this policy. 

1.GENERAL POLICY: Our policy is to make funds from your cash and check or draft deposits available to you on the same business day that we receive your deposit. Electronic direct deposits will be available on the day we receive the deposit. Once they are available, you can withdraw the funds in cash, and we will use the funds to pay checks or drafts that you have written. 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 5:30 p.m. 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 5:30 p.m. or on a day we are not open, we will consider that the deposit was made on the next business day we are open. 

2.RESERVATION OF RIGHT TO HOLD: In some cases, we will not make all of the funds that you deposit by check or draft available to you on the same business day that we receive your deposit. Funds may not be available until the second (2nd) business day after the day of your deposit. However, the first $225.00 of your deposit will be available on the first (1st) business day after the day of your deposit. If we are not going to make all of the funds from your deposit available on the same business day, we will notify you at the time you make your deposit. We will also tell you when the funds will be available. If your deposit is not made directly to one of our employees, or if we decide to take this action after you have left the premises, we will mail you the notice by the next business day after we receive your deposit. If you will need the funds from a deposit right away, you should ask us when the funds will be available. 

3.HOLDS ON OTHER FUNDS: If we cash a check or draft for you that is drawn on another financial institution, 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 or draft we cashed would have been available if you had deposited it. If we accept for deposit a check or draft that is drawn on another financial institution, 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 or draft that you deposited. 

4. LONGER DELAYS MAY APPLY: We may delay your ability to withdraw funds deposited by check or draft into your account an additional number of days for these reasons: 

• We believe a check or draft you deposit will not be paid. 
• You deposit checks or drafts totaling more than $5,525 on any one day. • You deposit a check or draft that has been returned unpaid. 
• You have overdrawn your account repeatedly in the last six months. 
• There is an emergency, such as failure of communications or computer 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 fifth (5th) business day after the day of your deposit. 

5. SPECIAL RULES FOR NEW ACCOUNTS: If you are a new member, the following special rules will apply during the first thirty (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 $5,525 of a day's total deposits of cashier's, certified, teller's, traveler's, and federal, state, and local government checks or drafts will be available on the next business day after the day of your deposit if the deposit meets certain conditions. For example, the checks or drafts must be payable to you. The excess over $5,525 will be available on the ninth (9th) business day after the day of your deposit. If your deposit of these checks or drafts (other than a U.S. Treasury check or draft) is not made in person to one of our employees, the first $5,525 will not be available until the second (2nd) business day after the day of your deposit. Funds from all other check or draft deposits will be available on the ninth (9th) business day after the day of your deposit. 

6. DEPOSITS AT NONPROPRIETARY ATMS: Funds from any deposits (cash or checks or drafts) made at automated teller machines (ATMs) we do not own or operate will not be available until the third (3rd) business day after the date of your deposit. This rule does not apply at ATMs that we own or operate. All ATMs that we own or operate are identified as our machines. 

7. FOREIGN CHECKS OR DRAFTS: Checks or drafts drawn on financial institutions located outside the U.S. (foreign checks or drafts) cannot be processed the same as checks or drafts drawn on U.S. financial institutions. Foreign checks or drafts are exempt from the policies outlined in this disclosure. Generally, the availability of funds for deposits of foreign checks or drafts will be delayed for the time it takes us to collect the funds from the financial institutions upon which it is drawn. 

8. SUBSTITUTE CHECKS: To make check processing faster, federal law permits the Credit Union to replace original checks with "substitute checks." These checks are similar in size to original checks with a slightly reduced image of the front and back of the original check. The front of a substitute check states: "This is a legal copy of your check. You can use it the same way you would use the original check." You may use a substitute check as proof of payment just like the original check. Copies of checks you receive from the Credit Union may be substitute checks. This notice describes rights you have when you receive substitute checks. The rights in this notice do not apply to original checks or to electronic debits to your account. However, you have rights under other law with respect to those transactions. 

a) In certain cases, federal law provides a special procedure that allows you to request a refund for losses you suffer if a substitute check is posted to your account (for example, if you think that we withdrew the wrong amount from your account or that we withdrew money from your account more than once for the same check). The losses you may attempt to recover under this procedure may include the amount that was withdrawn from your account and fees that were charged as a result of the withdrawal (for example, bounced check fees). The amount of your refund under this procedure is limited to the amount of your loss or the amount of the substitute check, whichever is less. You also are entitled to dividends on the amount of your refund if your account is dividend-bearing account. If your loss exceeds the amount of the substitute check, you may be able to recover additional amounts under other law. If you use this procedure, you may receive up to $2,500 of your refund (plus dividends) within 10 business days after we received your claim and the remainder of your refund (plus dividends) not later than 45 calendar days after we received your claim. We may reverse the refund (including any dividends on the refund) if we later are able to demonstrate that the substitute check was correctly posted to your account. 

b) If you believe that you have suffered a loss relating to a substitute check that you received and that was posted to your account, please contact the Credit Union. You must contact us within 40 calendar days of the date that we mailed or otherwise delivered the account statement showing that the substitute check was posted to your account. We will extend this time period if you were not able to make a timely claim because of extraordinary circumstances. 

Your claim must include: 

• A description of why you have suffered a loss (for example, you think the amount withdrawn was incorrect); 
• An estimate of the amount of your loss; 
• An explanation of why the substitute check you received is insufficient to confirm that you suffered a loss; and 
• A copy of the substitute check and the following information to help us identify the substitute check: the check number, the name of the person to whom you wrote the check, and the amount of the check.