Woman 'flabbergasted' when bank tells her she can't deposit $6k in cash she'd found after misplacing four years ago

A California female was near 'flabbergasted' erstwhile her slope refused to deposit $6,000 successful rate she had recovered aft misplacing it 4 years ago.

Mary Venegas, 66, told CBS Sacramento she put down an letter cover containing $6,000 successful rate location successful her gait backmost successful 2020.

After 4 years of searching for nan rate - which she had initially planned to usage to salary disconnected her taxes - she recovered nan letter cover connected nan ground, covered up by cardboard. 

'It was specified a bully emotion because we had been looking for it for truthful long,' Venegas said.

But erstwhile she went to deposit nan rate astatine her section Bank of America branch - wherever she has been a loyal customer for decades - nan slope refused to judge it because immoderate of nan bills suffered h2o harm and had their corners torn off.

'I was flabbergasted,' she said.

Venegas, who is connected a fixed income, had been hoping to usage nan newfound money to salary disconnected her wintertime inferior bills, which she is still down on.

'I don't for illustration to beryllium people, and I don't for illustration to beryllium astatine all,' she explained.

'I've been down connected bills I owe, and I'm not nan benignant of personification that likes to owe.'

The US Department of nan Treasury does speech mutilated money, but only if half aliases little of nan measure remains, aliases if it's worth is questioned because of its condition.

But nan authorities process could return anyplace from six months to 3 years to accomplish.

'You cognize what, I sewage to beryllium honest. What if I dice earlier I ever received it?' Venegas asked, anxious to get nan worth for her cash.

'When you get old, you deliberation astir each of these - you know, you interest astir everything. And I don't for illustration to do that,' she explained.

'But erstwhile we recovered it, we thought, "Oh good, bully good. Now we could salary disconnected this and that.'

Fortunately, investigative reporters astatine CBS Sacramento realized that much than half of Venegas' bills were still successful tact and nan worth for each measure was intelligibly stated.

They past asked Bank of America to reconsider its refusal, and slope tellers accepted $5,700 of nan $6,000 successful cash.

She now has to nonstop nan different $300 to nan Treasury to get replaced, arsenic she said she has learned 'to person my hubby return [the money] to nan bank.'

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Bank of America for comment.