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Stop Payment Request Form

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ACH Drafts
A Member can place a stop payment on an ACH draft. The Member is required to fill out and sign a Stop Payment Request Form. Assist Member in filling out the form if necessary. The merchant’s name goes on the payable to line, expecting clearing date should be the date that the draft normally clears each month, and the merchant number goes on the check serial number line.
Call the Accounting Department so they can put the stop payment on the system. Be sure to sign your name at the bottom of the form and get a good telephone number from the Member in case the Accounting Department needs to get in touch with them. Fax the form to the appropriate personnel in the Accounting Department. Give Member the yellow copy of the form so they …show more content…

The telephone company, then, creates a physical Paper Draft, which they submit for the payment.
Stop payments on Electronic/Paper Drafts are often difficult because the merchant will sometimes make up a random check number when creating the draft. This means if we place a stop payment on a specific check number, it could possibly clear as a different number and bypass the stop payment we created.
Gather as much information as possible from the previous drafts that the merchant has done.
The Member will need to fill out and sign a Stop Payment Request Form. Call the Accounting Department so they can set up the stop payment on the system. Be sure the Member and you sign the bottom of the form. Get a good telephone number from the Member in case the Accounting Department needs to get in touch with them. Fax the form to the appropriate personnel in the Accounting Department.
Advise the Member to monitor their account and immediately notify the credit union if this particular draft clears. Call the Accounting Department to let them know if this occurs so we can return the item as a stop payment and refund the Member’s account.
Verbal Stop

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