A WOMAN despaired after noticing more than $2,500 had been drained from her account.

Brooke Suchomel noticed the money was missing when she checked her balance in her account.

She was among the Californians who received Employment Development Department prepaid debit cards during the pandemic that contained unemployment benefits.

But Suchomel noticed two charges – one totaling $1500 from the luxury brand Neiman Marcus and another for $1,200, per the CBS affiliate KPIX-TV.

“It had been drained overnight, the day before rent was due,” she told KPIX-TV.

Suchomel filed a claim to try and recover the missing money.

Bank of America did not provide a comment on Suchomel’s specific case.

The U.S. Sun has approached Bank of America for further comment.

Suchomel was not the only EDD recipient who had seen thousands of dollars taken from her account.

An EDD spokesperson told KPIX that the bank is responsible for tackling fraud cases.

Anthony Serafino, who lost his job at a bowling alley, was deprived of $10,000. He was later reimbursed.

Problems started to arise when his card was blocked when he tried to withdraw $20, as originally reported by the ABC affiliate KGO-TV.

Serafino went into a bank branch but staffers reportedly told him that they couldn’t help.

“They said only Bank of America can do that. I called Bank of America. They said only EDD can do that… it went back and forth,” he said.

Serafino’s account was locked before it was unfrozen.

But then he made the discovery that $10,000 had been transferred to EDD chiefs.

“It was exactly $10,000,” he lamented.

But, there were several transactions – the sum wasn’t transferred in just one chunk.

The U.S. Sun reported how Alfredo Mancilla saw $15,000 wiped from his debit card – before he was later reimbursed.

He said he used the money to cover his bills and support his family.

It emerged that his account had been linked to a person in Texas.

“I told them that the transfers that were being made were not mine… the account numbers were not mine,” Mancilla said.

He tried to recover the money but was knocked back three times.

“It felt like I got hit in the stomach when they denied my claim the first time, the second time, and the third time,” he cried.

Chiefs were convinced that no error had occurred.

But, Bank of America reimbursed Mancilla with the money that had been taken from his account.