Key Bank

Well here we are again waiting for KeyBank to put the money that Washington State paid them for my unemployment on my card. It has been about 30 hours since the money was given to the bank and I still have nothing. Rent was due yesterday. They extended until today but I won't get paid until tomorrow at the soonest because for whatever reason, they hold your money and don't disperse it when they get it. I would have to guess that I have something to do with the money that they are making by using our money to generate money for themselves at our expense. I wish the Washington state would pull out of the key Bank situation and shut them down for the fraud that they're committing against the people who are depending on unemployment benefits.

I've had a Key2Benefits card since 2013. My state uses the system to manage child support payments. In the eight years that I've been a customer, I have successfully logged into the site less than 10 times. Per the customer service agent I spoke to today, the site is very glitchy. I've tried resetting my password, recovering my user name, resetting my PIN, using an incognito window, accessing via Microsoft and Apple products, and everything else customer service has recommended with no success. Every time I try to access the site, it's a 30-60 minute waste of time. I can't believe the federal government thought this monstrosity of a website was a good idea for processing stimulus payments.

Two months I closed out my checking account and tried to close out my credit card. Key Bank wouldn’t let me. Said I have to wait for them to make sure I don’t have any outstanding credit even though I had no money in my checking account because I had already closed it out .So I called them again why they have not sent me my money they owe me on the credit I have remaining. This was in March. Said I didn’t close out my credit card account. So now it’s April they finally closed my account out. Said it would take 10 business days so I waited the 10 days. Still no money. I called this time to talk to a supervisor. She told me there was a glitch in the system. Said I would have to wait to get my money. So what do you think. Dishonest. Never bank with Key Bank And have their credit card.

Be Very Careful With Their Promotions. Opened a KeyBank Checking account with a $500.00 Promotion. The catch was you had to deposit $500 dollars within 60 days. Here I was, having all my payroll checks from a part-time job deposited within 60 days. The checks all totaled well over $500. This was on 9/22/2020. I called the bank after 90 days and they told me it could take up to 6 months to get my promo check. I called again on April the 26rh, 2021, and was told I did not qualify because I did not make ONE deposit of $500 or more... Seriously? I had all my payroll checks deposited within 60 days.

I have never experienced such poor and careless customer service in my entire life. I was automatically signed up and issued a Keybank account to receive the unemployment benefits I recently started receiving. It's now mid April and my very first unemployment deposit was made to the Keybank account on March 3rd. After sending to wrong address the card was cancelled immediately but took numerous emails. They sometimes responded to asking for specific documents to verify my correct address. After sending appropriate document that was approved ... I waited over 3 entire weeks and still hadn't received replacement card. After inquiring about this ... I was told I had to send appropriate documents to verify my correct address AGAIN! After doing so ... I was told the new card would be expedited and expect to receive it within 2-3 business days!???

Key Bank is by far the worst bank ever. I will never do business with this bank again. Every time you call you're on hold from anywhere to 20-45 minutes. Then you speak to a rep and they are absolutely no help at all. I spoke to a Kaitlyn. She was rude, she filed a dispute that they gave me credit back for then took my credit back from me with no letter or any communication informing me of this. Needless to say I closed my account with these clowns. Do not bank with key bank. They also steal people's money by double charging your account and acting like it was a bank error. They are a huge scam!

Tried to open an account. Lady was clueless and didn’t know how. Had to wait four days before she had instructions. Then set up account wrong. She told me it would be two more days for them to fix the account. So told them to just give me my money back and forget the whole thing. I never left the bank, never received checks or a debit card. They refused to give me all of my money back that day to close the account. Don’t ever go to Key Bank in Thornton as they are completely clueless, and management doesn’t know what they are doing either.

No matter how many times I update my account with notes regarding international travel, my debit card is always shut off. I work abroad and am always using my card in foreign countries. Despite knowing this, my card is continuously turned off due to "suspicious" transactions. This last "suspicious" transaction was an 84 cent tip for an Uber driver. Tips on Uber are routed through their international headquarters in the Netherlands, and, because I had only told the bank I was in Colombia, they turned the card off leaving me stranded, alone, at night, on the Colombian streets with no way to get home. This bank operates at a 1977 standard and is useless in 2021. Making matters worse, the only way to turn your card back on is -- you guessed it -- through your US phone number. (Apparently, the bank can't afford to make international phone calls.) I am continuously disappointed (and put in serious risk) because of this bank.

I bought my truck last year and it was financed through Key Bank. I had a habit of paying my loan at the last minute. Only 2 or 3 times it was late. As soon as the date was up the company called my work 3-4 times a day asking for me. I called the company several times to tell them to stop calling. They even called after I made a payment! I put it in writing to stop calling. For months they called my work. The company said they only had my work number after I changed it to my cell, several times. I just refinanced and thank goodness.

After spending the last two days on hold and numerous hours speaking with representatives from KeyBank it has come to my attention that there is possibly a Nationwide Unemployment Fraud taking place that needs to be looked into further. I am bringing this to Consumer Affairs because I am hoping that this is something other people can be made aware of the current situation.