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What Truist layoffs have meant for employees

If you worked at Regional Acceptance, losing a job because Truist dropped the whole business is a rough way to go. Regional Acceptance had lately been breaking even, The Dallas Morning News reported, and Truist's finance chief described the plan as "focusing on fewer things that frankly leverage our strengths." Greenville's mayor, P.J. Connelly, told WITN the 253 local losses were a major layoff for the community and said the city would do whatever it could to help people find new jobs.

If you work at one of the four offices with a notice, the date that shapes your plans is your own separation date, which can fall anywhere from late November to your site's last day, so two people in one building can leave months apart. The North Carolina notices tie the closings to Truist's decision to sell the unit's assets, which gives you a plain, documented answer if a future employer asks why the job ended.

For Arlington's staff, Truist's statement pledged consideration for other Truist roles. If your job falls under Truist's General Severance Plan and you're weighing a Truist role, it's worth asking in writing whether it counts as comparable before you answer, since the company's September 2026 severance guide ties severance to that question. The guide sends questions like that to your manager first and then to a severance mailbox, and it promises priority consideration for open roles through its Redeployment Program.

Two of the guide's rules can cost money after a job ends. If you've received severance and Truist rehires you before the payout period ends, the guide says you repay the remaining amount, so someone paid ten weeks who returns after six owes four. If you'd hoped to come back as a contractor, the guide requires a break of at least six consecutive months before a staffing vendor can place you at Truist. Pay and benefits stay the same through the termination date, and the guide offers outplacement through LHH, starting within a week of the notification meeting, plus a year of LinkedIn Learning and 36 months of Lyra Health access for your household, with up to 12 coaching or therapy sessions a year. If you signed a non-compete or non-solicitation agreement, the guide says it still binds you, and it asks you to keep your home address and personal email current in Workday, since pay, tax and benefit papers go to the home address after you leave.

The merger and the 2023 plan, the two cost programs on record before Regional Acceptance, were announced in dollars, a $1.6 billion savings goal and $750 million in cuts, and played out over many months. In 2023 a spokesperson described the approach as hiring in some areas and rightsizing in others through attrition and planned reductions, with help for affected people looking for work at Truist or elsewhere. Between the 2019 merger and September 2026, our WARN tracker holds one Truist-named notice, Nashville's in 2023, though the bank reported more than a thousand jobs eliminated in the last quarter of that year alone.

Regional Acceptance also runs a business center in Plano, and it was unclear how many of its employees elsewhere got notices, The Dallas Morning News reported. Wherever you worked, our pages on unemployment for Texas, Arizona and North Carolina cover what each state pays and how to file. You can search the tracker under Regional Acceptance, Truist, SunTrust or BB&T to match the city and date of the North Carolina and Arizona filings, while Arlington's notice is on record through that same Dallas report.

A sourced history of Truist layoffs

• September 2026, Regional Acceptance closing notices

  Notices dated September 15 put 156 jobs in Winterville and 97 in Greenville, North Carolina, per WITN, 120 in Tempe, Arizona, per ABC15, and 205 in Arlington, Texas. Truist pledged Arlington's staff severance benefits, consideration for other roles and job search help, it told The Dallas Morning News.

• July 2024, technology department job cuts

  Truist confirmed job cuts in its technology department to The Charlotte Observer, to be made over three to four months, and said it would help affected workers find other jobs inside and outside the bank.

• September 2023, a $750 million cost program

  CEO Bill Rogers announced "sizable reductions" in the workforce over the next three quarters, with job cuts expected to save about $300 million a year, Banking Dive reported. The bank cut 1,038 jobs in the fourth quarter alone, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.

• June 2023, Truist Bank's Nashville office closing

  Truist Bank's notice for its office at 41 Rachel Drive counted 76 workers, but Tennessee's labor department recorded that ten would be laid off and 66 would keep their jobs at other locations when it closed July 30.

• 2019 to 2022, BB&T and SunTrust merger consolidation

  Truist planned to close 800 branches after BB&T and SunTrust combined, The Charlotte Observer reported. The $1.6 billion in yearly savings promised for early 2022 came at the end of that year, according to Banking Dive.

What to do if you're laid off from Truist

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Truist's biggest hubs: North Carolina, Arizona, Texas. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Truist's hub states run: North Carolina, Arizona, Texas, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.