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Common Stock Dividends | 3 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
COMMON STOCK DIVIDEND [Abstract] |
Stockholders' Equity, Policy [Policy Text Block] | COMMON STOCK DIVIDENDS As previously disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 29, 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors announced that, based on highly uncertain economic conditions and the desire to preserve capital, Carver suspended payment of the quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. In accordance with the Orders, the Bank and Company are also prohibited from paying any dividends without prior regulatory approval, and, as such, suspended the regularly quarterly cash dividend payments on the Company's Series B preferred stock issued under the Trouble Asset Relief Program Capital Purchase Program (“TARP CPP”) to the United States Department of Treasury (“Treasury”). On October 18, 2011, Carver received approval from the Federal Reserve Bank to pay all outstanding dividend payments (which included $192 thousand accrued during the six month period ended September 30, 2011) on the Company's Series B preferred stock issued under the TARP CPP. There are no assurances that the payments of dividends on the common stock will resume. Debenture interest payments which had previously been deferred in March 2011 and June 2011 on the Carver Statutory Trust I trust preferred securities (“TruPS”) were brought current in September 2011 before the regulators precluded future payments without prior approval. The expense continues to be accrued and the payments remain on deferral status. On October 28, 2011, the Treasury exchanged the CDCI Series B preferred stock for 2,321,286 shares of Carver common stock and the Series C preferred stock converted into 1,208,039 shares of Carver common stock and 45,118 shares of Series D preferred stock. Series C stock was previously reported as Mezzanine equity, and upon conversion to common and Series D preferred stock is now reported as equity attributable to Carver Bancorp, Inc. The holders of the Series D Preferred Stock are entitled to receive dividends, on an as-converted basis, simultaneously to the payment of any dividends on the common stock.

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