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That's awful! I paid a Visa bill twice once from my bank's phone app. It took awhile to be refunded too- but as soon as you underpay, they notice right away!

oh my gosh!! I hate that feeling - it's the worst! So, the county water office actually cleared a check for that much higher than your bill? that doesn't seem right...

We've had this happen before! DH was trying to pay a credit card bill and sent the payment to the wrong credit card. It took 30 days to get our money back. Pain in the butt!

Oof. What a pain... I've definitely messed up here and there but luckily I've caught it most of the time!

Ugh, what a headache! Is the bank going to refund your fees? I once paid the mortgage out of the wrong account (we didn't use anymore, but kept a $100 balance in it). I've found that if I call promptly and explain what happened, they will usually refund any fees.

We had this happen before! It was 100% our fault.

My husband paid our car payment then texted me from his work one day and said "I can't remember if I paid our auto loan. Can you check and pay if necessary?"

So I checked and it didn't show in our scheduled or recently paid bills, so I paid.

It turns out he had paid from HIS checking account (we have two checking accts with the same back, one of us is primary on each) and even though our accts are linked (we can see each other's checking accounts when we log in) HIS scheduled bills do not appear on my end -- but HE can see MY scheduled bills.

Sooo, we paid our car payment twice in one month. Nothing we could do about it, two separate and legitimate payments.

Now we know to log in under both accts to check payments before we do anything else!

Yikes! I double paid on my mortgage one month by accident, so an extra 1200$ came out! I had to call around to the bank, stop the check, etc. It was such a pain!!

Ugh that sucks! At least you are getting your money back!

Ouch, that stinks! We had the opposite happen to us one time. We paid a bill for the correct amount, but the water company entered it incorrectly as only 10% of what the check was for and shut off our water because "we hadn't paid in full". It was a major PITA to convince the water company that they had made the mistake and it took several days to get our water back on.

@stine_ciro: This has also happened to me! Although I've never had a service disconnected thankfully

Oh no! That sucks, I'm sorry you're dealing with this.

You may be able to get the bank to reimburse any fees they have charged you, especially if this is the first time you have had something like this happen. I would either go in to the bank in person or give them a call.

Good luck!

ETA: just saw that you already arranged to get the fees reimbursed. So glad! Hopefully the money will go back to your account ASAP!

@Rocker2014: I just realized that your friend must have been really drunk to fill in both parts of the check incorrectly! Or maybe she left the word part of the amount empty and the church filled it in for her.

I've done it before but they fixed it immediately. I love my bank.