This bank is staffed by poorly trained and ignorant people. They have no clue what the bank's policies and procedures are. They were decent until they merged with another bank. During the merger, they said that your transactions had to be processed by a certain date and time, because they were temporarily cutting off access to customer funds. I found this outrageous. I have been with other banks during mergers, and never had access to my funds suspended.
Somehow, they botched the process and failed to pay my bills despite my request to pay out being 2 days before the deadline. I went into the Branford bank and had to fight them to get the insufficient funds charges reversed when my money couldn't be transferred to my various bill carriers. The North Haven branch, my closest local branch, could not explain how/why the error happened. Nor could the customer service number provide me with a solution. Also, the North Haven branch has terrible hours. They make it impossible for a working person to go into the bank. It's not just this branch that sucks; it's Liberty Bank in general. They have very limited hours for their customer service line as well. If anything goes wrong with your account, they wait until the end of the banking commission deadline to fix errors. Their fraud monitoring is non-existent, and if they make a mistake with your account, they lock you out of it until it's fixed. Yes, they cut off YOUR access to YOUR money for THEIR error! One time they gave me too much money when I made a withdrawal. I returned it immediately, and they acted like I did something wrong, and didn't even thank me. read more