Organization	9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]	ORGANIZATION Nature of operations Carver Bancorp, Inc. (on a stand-alone basis, the “Company” or “Registrant”), was incorporated in May 1996 and its principal wholly owned subsidiary is Carver Federal Savings Bank (the “Bank” or “Carver Federal”). Carver Federal's wholly owned subsidiaries are CFSB Realty Corp., Carver Community Development Corporation (“CCDC”) and CFSB Credit Corp., which is currently inactive. The Bank has a majority-owned interest in Carver Asset Corporation, a real estate investment trust formed in February 2004. “Carver,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our” refers to the Company along with its consolidated subsidiaries. The Bank was chartered in 1948 and began operations in 1949 as Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association, a federally-chartered mutual savings and loan association. The Bank converted to a federal savings bank in 1986. On October 24, 1994, the Bank converted from a mutual holding company structure to stock form and issued 2,314,375 shares of its common stock, par value 0.01 per share. On October 17, 1996, the Bank completed its reorganization into a holding company structure (the “Reorganization”) and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Carver Federal’s principal business consists of attracting deposit accounts through its branches and investing those funds in mortgage loans and other investments permitted by federal savings banks. The Bank has nine branches located throughout the City of New York that primarily serve the communities in which they operate. In September 2003, the Company formed Carver Statutory Trust I (the “Trust”) for the sole purpose of issuing trust preferred securities and investing the proceeds in an equivalent amount of floating rate junior subordinated debentures of the Company. In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 810, “Consolidations,” Carver Statutory Trust I is unconsolidated for financial reporting purposes. On September 17, 2003, Carver Statutory Trust I issued 13,000 shares, liquidation amount $1,000 per share, of floating rate capital securities. Gross proceeds from the sale of these trust preferred debt securities of $13 million, and proceeds from the sale of the trust's common securities of $0.4 million, were used to purchase approximately $13.4 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's floating rate junior subordinated debt securities due 2033. The trust preferred debt securities are redeemable at par quarterly at the option of the Company beginning on or after September 17, 2008, and have a mandatory redemption date of September 17, 2033. Cash distributions on the trust preferred debt securities are cumulative and payable at a floating rate per annum resetting quarterly with a margin of 3.05% over the three-month LIBOR. Interest on the debentures has been deferred, per the terms of the agreement, as the Company is prohibited from making prior payments without prior approval. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2017, the Company applied for and was granted regulatory approval to settle all outstanding debenture interest payments through September 2016. Such payments were made in September 2016. Carver relies primarily on dividends from Carver Federal to pay cash dividends to its stockholders, to engage in share repurchase programs and to pay principal and interest on its trust preferred debt obligation. The OCC regulates all capital distributions, including dividend payments, by Carver Federal to Carver, and the FRB regulates dividends paid by Carver. As the subsidiary of a savings and loan association holding company, Carver Federal must file a notice or an application (depending on the proposed dividend amount) with the OCC (and a notice with the FRB) prior to the declaration of each capital distribution. The OCC will disallow any proposed dividend, for among other reasons, that would result in Carver Federal’s failure to meet the OCC minimum capital requirements. In accordance with the Agreement, Carver Federal is currently prohibited from paying any dividends without prior OCC approval, and, as such, has suspended Carver’s regular quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. There are no assurances that dividend payments to Carver will resume. Regulation On October 23, 2015, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted resolutions requiring, among other things, written approval from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia prior to the declaration or payment of dividends, any increase in debt by the Company, or the redemption of Company common stock. On May 24, 2016, the Bank entered into a Formal Agreement with the OCC to undertake certain compliance-related and other actions as further described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 27, 2016. As a result of the Formal Agreement (“the Agreement”), the Bank must obtain the approval of the OCC prior to effecting any change in its directors or senior executive officers. The Bank may not declare or pay dividends or make any other capital distributions, including to the Company, without first filing an application with the OCC and receiving the prior approval of the OCC. Furthermore, the Bank must seek the OCC's written approval and the FDIC's written concurrence before entering into any "golden parachute payments" as that term is defined under 12 U.S.C. § 1828(k) and 12 C.F.R. Part 359. On June 29, 2011, the Company raised $55 million of capital by issuing 55,000 shares of mandatorily convertible non-voting participating preferred stock, Series C (the “Series C preferred stock”). The issuance resulted in a $51.4 million increase in equity after considering the effect of various expenses associated with the capital raise. The capital raise enabled the Company to make a capital injection of $37 million in the Bank on June 30, 2011. In December 2011, another $7 million capital injection was made in the Bank. The remainder of the net capital raised is retained by the Company for future strategic purposes or to downstream into the Bank, if necessary. No assurances can be given that the amount of capital raised is sufficient to absorb the expected losses in the Bank's loan portfolio. Should the losses be greater than expected, additional capital may be necessary in the future. On October 25, 2011, Carver's stockholders voted to approve a 1-for-15 reverse stock split. A separate vote of approval was given to convert the Series C preferred stock to non-cumulative non-voting participating preferred stock, Series D (“the Series D preferred stock”) and to common stock and to exchange the U.S. Treasury's (“Treasury”) Community Development Capital Initiative (“CDCI”) Series B preferred stock for common stock. On October 27, 2011, the 1-for-15 reverse stock split was effected, which reduced the number of outstanding shares of common stock from 2,492,415 to 166,161. 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. Restatement On July 12, 2016, the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Carver Bancorp, Inc., after consultation with KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm at the time, determined that our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, and each of the quarters of 2015 and 2016 should no longer be relied upon. The Company's audited results as of and for the year ended March 31, 2015, as well as the unaudited condensed consolidated financial information for the quarterly periods in 2016 and 2015 were restated in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2016 (the "Restatement"). The Restatement corrected a material error related to the accrual of data processing and other expenses related to invoices paid to the Bank's core system service provider. In fiscal 2016, Carver Bancorp recognized expenses on invoices paid to its core system provider, and during the course of preparation of the fiscal 2016 consolidated financial statements and audit, management determined that $613 thousand of expenses should have been recognized in fiscal 2015. The impact of the restatement for the three months ended December 31, 2015 was a decrease in data processing expense of $133 thousand. For the nine months ended December 31, 2015, the impact of the restatement was decreases in the provision for loan losses of $83 thousand, data processing expense of $267 thousand, consulting fees of $23 thousand and other non-interest expense of $36 thousand. Management also identified an accounting error related to the reporting of earnings per share (EPS). Under the two class method of computing EPS, the Company has two classes of stock to which undistributed earnings are allocated. Previously, the impact of the undistributed earnings allocated to the shares of the Company’s Series D convertible preferred stock had not been considered in this computation. Basic and Diluted EPS amounts were updated for all periods in a net income position to include 45,118 shares of Series D Preferred Stock which, under certain circumstances, could convert to 5,518,006 shares of common stock. The impact of the restatement for the three months ended December 31, 2015 was a decrease of $0.06 in basic and diluted EPS from $0.12 to $0.06. For the nine months ended December 31, 2015, the impact of the restatement was a decrease of $0.03 in basic and diluted EPS from $0.12 to $0.09. In addition to these errors, adjustments were made related to other individually immaterial errors including certain corrections that had been previously identified but not recorded because they were not material to our consolidated financial statements. These corrections included adjustments to accrued liabilities, provision for loan losses and certain reclassification entries. All applicable amounts relating to this Restatement have been reflected in the consolidated financial statements and disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q. Correction of Immaterial Error The Company identified and has corrected an error regarding the accounting of a pool of loans serviced by a third party. The accounting adjustments are related to rate changes processed by the servicer to Carver client accounts that were not timely processed by the Bank on to its core provider system. Management evaluated the materiality of the error from qualitative and quantitative perspectives and concluded that the error was immaterial to the prior period financial statements taken as a whole. The error correction reduced accrued interest receivable by $446 thousand as of October 1, 2016; of this amount $23 thousand and $22 thousand, respectively, related to the quarters ended September 30, 2016 and June 30, 2016, respectively, and have been recorded as a decrease to loan interest income during the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The remaining $401 thousand related to errors accumulated over several prior years and has been recorded during the quarter ended December 31, 2016 as an increase to other non-interest expense. The error correction also reduced loans receivable by $52 thousand, which is reflected in other non-interest expense during the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The cumulative impact of the errors on net income for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2016 was a decrease of $498 thousand and $453 thousand, respectively.

ORGANIZATION

Nature of operations

Carver Bancorp, Inc. (on a stand-alone basis, the “Company” or “Registrant”), was incorporated in May 1996 and its principal wholly owned subsidiary is Carver Federal Savings Bank (the “Bank” or “Carver Federal”). Carver Federal's wholly owned subsidiaries are CFSB Realty Corp., Carver Community Development Corporation (“CCDC”) and CFSB Credit Corp., which is currently inactive. The Bank has a majority-owned interest in Carver Asset Corporation, a real estate investment trust formed in February 2004.

“Carver,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our” refers to the Company along with its consolidated subsidiaries. The Bank was chartered in 1948 and began operations in 1949 as Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association, a federally-chartered mutual savings and loan association. The Bank converted to a federal savings bank in 1986. On October 24, 1994, the Bank converted from a mutual holding company structure to stock form and issued 2,314,375 shares of its common stock, par value 0.01 per share. On October 17, 1996, the Bank completed its reorganization into a holding company structure (the “Reorganization”) and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

Carver Federal’s principal business consists of attracting deposit accounts through its branches and investing those funds in mortgage loans and other investments permitted by federal savings banks. The Bank has nine branches located throughout the City of New York that primarily serve the communities in which they operate.

In September 2003, the Company formed Carver Statutory Trust I (the “Trust”) for the sole purpose of issuing trust preferred securities and investing the proceeds in an equivalent amount of floating rate junior subordinated debentures of the Company. In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 810, “Consolidations,” Carver Statutory Trust I is unconsolidated for financial reporting purposes. On September 17, 2003, Carver Statutory Trust I issued 13,000 shares, liquidation amount $1,000 per share, of floating rate capital securities. Gross proceeds from the sale of these trust preferred debt securities of $13 million, and proceeds from the sale of the trust's common securities of $0.4 million, were used to purchase approximately $13.4 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's floating rate junior subordinated debt securities due 2033. The trust preferred debt securities are redeemable at par quarterly at the option of the Company beginning on or after September 17, 2008, and have a mandatory redemption date of September 17, 2033. Cash distributions on the trust preferred debt securities are cumulative and payable at a floating rate per annum resetting quarterly with a margin of 3.05% over the three-month LIBOR. Interest on the debentures has been deferred, per the terms of the agreement, as the Company is prohibited from making prior payments without prior approval. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2017, the Company applied for and was granted regulatory approval to settle all outstanding debenture interest payments through September 2016. Such payments were made in September 2016.

Carver relies primarily on dividends from Carver Federal to pay cash dividends to its stockholders, to engage in share repurchase programs and to pay principal and interest on its trust preferred debt obligation. The OCC regulates all capital distributions, including dividend payments, by Carver Federal to Carver, and the FRB regulates dividends paid by Carver. As the subsidiary of a savings and loan association holding company, Carver Federal must file a notice or an application (depending on the proposed dividend amount) with the OCC (and a notice with the FRB) prior to the declaration of each capital distribution. The OCC will disallow any proposed dividend, for among other reasons, that would result in Carver Federal’s failure to meet the OCC minimum capital requirements. In accordance with the Agreement, Carver Federal is currently prohibited from paying any dividends without prior OCC approval, and, as such, has suspended Carver’s regular quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. There are no assurances that dividend payments to Carver will resume.

Regulation

On October 23, 2015, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted resolutions requiring, among other things, written approval from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia prior to the declaration or payment of dividends, any increase in debt by the Company, or the redemption of Company common stock.

On May 24, 2016, the Bank entered into a Formal Agreement with the OCC to undertake certain compliance-related and other actions as further described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 27, 2016. As a result of the Formal Agreement (“the Agreement”), the Bank must obtain the approval of the OCC prior to effecting any change in its directors or senior executive officers. The Bank may not declare or pay dividends or make any other capital distributions, including to the Company, without first filing an application with the OCC and receiving the prior approval of the OCC. Furthermore, the Bank must seek the OCC's written approval and the FDIC's written concurrence before entering into any "golden parachute payments" as that term is defined under 12 U.S.C. § 1828(k) and 12 C.F.R. Part 359.

On June 29, 2011, the Company raised $55 million of capital by issuing 55,000 shares of mandatorily convertible non-voting participating preferred stock, Series C (the “Series C preferred stock”). The issuance resulted in a $51.4 million increase in equity after considering the effect of various expenses associated with the capital raise. The capital raise enabled the Company to make a capital injection of $37 million in the Bank on June 30, 2011. In December 2011, another $7 million capital injection was made in the Bank. The remainder of the net capital raised is retained by the Company for future strategic purposes or to downstream into the Bank, if necessary. No assurances can be given that the amount of capital raised is sufficient to absorb the expected losses in the Bank's loan portfolio. Should the losses be greater than expected, additional capital may be necessary in the future.

On October 25, 2011, Carver's stockholders voted to approve a 1-for-15 reverse stock split. A separate vote of approval was given to convert the Series C preferred stock to non-cumulative non-voting participating preferred stock, Series D (“the Series D preferred stock”) and to common stock and to exchange the U.S. Treasury's (“Treasury”) Community Development Capital Initiative (“CDCI”) Series B preferred stock for common stock.

On October 27, 2011, the 1-for-15 reverse stock split was effected, which reduced the number of outstanding shares of common stock from 2,492,415 to 166,161.

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.

Restatement

On July 12, 2016, the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Carver Bancorp, Inc., after consultation with KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm at the time, determined that our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, and each of the quarters of 2015 and 2016 should no longer be relied upon.

The Company's audited results as of and for the year ended March 31, 2015, as well as the unaudited condensed consolidated financial information for the quarterly periods in 2016 and 2015 were restated in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2016 (the "Restatement"). The Restatement corrected a material error related to the accrual of data processing and other expenses related to invoices paid to the Bank's core system service provider. In fiscal 2016, Carver Bancorp recognized expenses on invoices paid to its core system provider, and during the course of preparation of the fiscal 2016 consolidated financial statements and audit, management determined that $613 thousand of expenses should have been recognized in fiscal 2015. The impact of the restatement for the three months ended December 31, 2015 was a decrease in data processing expense of $133 thousand. For the nine months ended December 31, 2015, the impact of the restatement was decreases in the provision for loan losses of $83 thousand, data processing expense of $267 thousand, consulting fees of $23 thousand and other non-interest expense of $36 thousand. Management also identified an accounting error related to the reporting of earnings per share (EPS). Under the two class method of computing EPS, the Company has two classes of stock to which undistributed earnings are allocated. Previously, the impact of the undistributed earnings allocated to the shares of the Company’s Series D convertible preferred stock had not been considered in this computation. Basic and Diluted EPS amounts were updated for all periods in a net income position to include 45,118 shares of Series D Preferred Stock which, under certain circumstances, could convert to 5,518,006 shares of common stock. The impact of the restatement for the three months ended December 31, 2015 was a decrease of $0.06 in basic and diluted EPS from $0.12 to $0.06. For the nine months ended December 31, 2015, the impact of the restatement was a decrease of $0.03 in basic and diluted EPS from $0.12 to $0.09. In addition to these errors, adjustments were made related to other individually immaterial errors including certain corrections that had been previously identified but not recorded because they were not material to our consolidated financial statements. These corrections included adjustments to accrued liabilities, provision for loan losses and certain reclassification entries. All applicable amounts relating to this Restatement have been reflected in the consolidated financial statements and disclosed in the notes to the consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-Q.

Correction of Immaterial Error

The Company identified and has corrected an error regarding the accounting of a pool of loans serviced by a third party. The accounting adjustments are related to rate changes processed by the servicer to Carver client accounts that were not timely processed by the Bank on to its core provider system. Management evaluated the materiality of the error from qualitative and quantitative perspectives and concluded that the error was immaterial to the prior period financial statements taken as a whole. The error correction reduced accrued interest receivable by $446 thousand as of October 1, 2016; of this amount $23 thousand and $22 thousand, respectively, related to the quarters ended September 30, 2016 and June 30, 2016, respectively, and have been recorded as a decrease to loan interest income during the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The remaining $401 thousand related to errors accumulated over several prior years and has been recorded during the quarter ended December 31, 2016 as an increase to other non-interest expense. The error correction also reduced loans receivable by $52 thousand, which is reflected in other non-interest expense during the quarter ended December 31, 2016. The cumulative impact of the errors on net income for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2016 was a decrease of $498 thousand and $453 thousand, respectively.