{"id":193670,"date":"2025-09-02T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193670\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:42:17","slug":"septa-says-it-will-refund-fare-overcharges-reported-by-customers-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193670\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA says it will refund fare overcharges reported by customers \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/septa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEPTA<\/a> said that it will issue fare credits to customers who were charged $2.90 instead of $2.50 for a ride on Monday, the agency announced. <\/p>\n<p>The mass transit system said the incorrect charges impacted some customers who bought bus fares by tapping Key Cards or other contactless methods of payment.<\/p>\n<p>The agency<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/septa-officially-halts-pending-service-cuts-fare-increases-after-court-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> initially planned to raise fares<\/a> to $2.90 on Monday as part of its changes due to a financial deficit of $213 million, but a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/septa-cuts-ordered-to-stop-lawsuit-temporary-injunction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paused the move along with all planned service cuts<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, SEPTA apologized for the overcharges and said customers impacted will receive a 40 cents credit in their accounts. <\/p>\n<p>The refunds will be issued &#8220;as soon as possible,&#8221; SEPTA said. <\/p>\n<p>The court case that forced the pause in service cuts and fare hikes is set to meet again on Thursday, Sept. 4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEPTA said that it will issue fare credits to customers who were charged $2.90 instead of $2.50 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,15940,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-193670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-septa","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133818380044433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}