My Bank has routinely charged {$35.00} for payment of checks and electronic debits when there are insufficient funds available in my account at the time the item is posted. However, they have recently ( as of XXXX 2015 ) started to reverse the payment, crediting it back to my account, without crediting the fee, and subsequently returned the item as unpaid, for which they assess an additonal {$35.00} fee. and most recently, after this back and forth with paying, then returning the item has concluded, they have presented the same item for payment four ( 4 ) times in as many days, assessing the return check fee of {$35.00} each time. this has never occured in the history of my account, and when I asked my branch why this was happening, I was informed that, although there once was a law that limited banks to three times that they may collect NSF fees per item, today there is no limit to the number of NSF fees a bank may charge per item .... Because I did n't believe this was the result of an impatient merchant, I called the merchant who the check had been made payable to, in an effort to halt the snowballing NSF charges now topping {$210.00} for a check in the amount of {$40.00}. The merchant informed me that they do not make repeated attempts to secure payment of any item following the return of an item for non payment by the financial institution is was drawn upon. My bank refuses to acknowledge this double-dipping practice and despite the clear and irrefutable documentation that validates my concern, Im spoken to as if i lack the basic understanding of how a checking account works, and if that were n't enough, Im told, that If I just maintain a sufficent balance to cover the checks i write, this would n't be a problem in the future ... I am absolutely disgusted! This account is a joint account I share with my XXXX old mother who 's finances I manage. Her household finances are now in complete disarray as a result of her checking account balances fluctuating several hundred dollars from day to day. She feels completely helpless and it has caused her severe emotional distress. I have every intention of closing this account, and opening an account with a local bank with a better record of customer service, but not before I recover the total of these erroneous fees, now totalling over {$1000.00}. This bank has engaged in deceptive and unscrupulous practices for many years and I it needs to stop! 
