Customers at Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banks grappling with deposit delays

Customers at major U.S. banks including Bank of America and Wells Fargo complained about delays with their direct deposits on Monday, following a glitch with processing payments that began Friday. 

Bank of America didn’t respond to a request for comment, while Wells Fargo referred questions to The Clearing House, a payments company that operates the only private-sector automated clearing house (ACH) system in the U.S. 

The Clearing House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. On Friday, a spokesman for the organization said there had been a “processing error with an ACH file” on the previous day, according to CNBC. 

The Federal Reserve on Friday said the problem wasn’t related to a cybersecurity issue and that it had been resolved.  But customers on Monday continued to report delays with direct deposits, reaching out to their banks on social media to report that their paychecks hadn’t landed in their accounts as expected. 

DownDetector showed an increase in problems for Bank of America customers, including issues with funds transfers and online banking. Customers at other large banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, also reported ongoing problems on Monday, including issues retrieving account balances or other transactions, DownDetector said.

“@BankofAmerica Day 4 & still no direct deposit, no update on potential resolution or at they very least what’s being done to resolve the issue, no transparency, no assistance, no communication from you all at all. Nothing. Wow. This is so bizarre,” one user said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, wrote on Monday morning.