diff --git a/src/components/HoldPages/HoldRequestErrorBanner.tsx b/src/components/HoldPages/HoldRequestErrorBanner.tsx
index ee7288b4e..2cfbf9120 100644
--- a/src/components/HoldPages/HoldRequestErrorBanner.tsx
+++ b/src/components/HoldPages/HoldRequestErrorBanner.tsx
@@ -58,62 +58,58 @@ const HoldRequestErrorBanner = ({
         },
       }}
       content={
-        <>
-          <Box>
-            {HOLD_PAGE_CONTACT_PREFIXES?.[errorStatus] ? (
-              <Text>
-                <>
-                  {HOLD_PAGE_CONTACT_PREFIXES?.[errorStatus]}
-                  {" Please try again, "}
-                  <Button
-                    id="hold-contact"
-                    onClick={() =>
-                      onContact({
-                        id: item.id,
-                        barcode: item.barcode,
-                        callNumber: item.callNumber,
-                        bibId: item.bibId,
-                        notificationText: `Request failed for call number ${item.callNumber}`,
-                      })
-                    }
-                    buttonType="link"
-                    // TODO: Ask DS team to make button link variant match the default link styles
-                    sx={{
-                      display: "inline",
-                      fontWeight: "inherit",
-                      fontSize: "inherit",
-                      p: 0,
-                      height: "auto",
-                      textAlign: "left",
-                      minHeight: "auto",
-                      textDecorationStyle: "dotted",
-                      textDecorationThickness: "1px",
-                      textUnderlineOffset: "2px",
-                    }}
-                  >
-                    contact us
-                  </Button>{" "}
-                  for assistance, or{" "}
-                  <RCLink href="/search">start a new search.</RCLink>
-                </>
-              </Text>
-            ) : null}
-            {(() => {
-              switch (errorStatus) {
-                case "invalid":
-                  return "Some fields contain errors. Please correct and submit again."
-                case "patronIneligible":
-                  return patronEligibilityStatus ? (
-                    <PatronErrors
-                      patronEligibilityStatus={patronEligibilityStatus}
-                    />
-                  ) : null
-                default:
-                  return null
-              }
-            })()}
-          </Box>
-        </>
+        <Box>
+          {HOLD_PAGE_CONTACT_PREFIXES?.[errorStatus] ? (
+            <Text>
+              {HOLD_PAGE_CONTACT_PREFIXES?.[errorStatus]}
+              {" Please try again, "}
+              <Button
+                id="hold-contact"
+                onClick={() =>
+                  onContact({
+                    id: item.id,
+                    barcode: item.barcode,
+                    callNumber: item.callNumber,
+                    bibId: item.bibId,
+                    notificationText: `Request failed for call number ${item.callNumber}`,
+                  })
+                }
+                buttonType="link"
+                // TODO: Ask DS team to make button link variant match the default link styles
+                sx={{
+                  display: "inline",
+                  fontWeight: "inherit",
+                  fontSize: "inherit",
+                  p: 0,
+                  height: "auto",
+                  textAlign: "left",
+                  minHeight: "auto",
+                  textDecorationStyle: "dotted",
+                  textDecorationThickness: "1px",
+                  textUnderlineOffset: "2px",
+                }}
+              >
+                contact us
+              </Button>{" "}
+              for assistance, or{" "}
+              <RCLink href="/search">start a new search.</RCLink>
+            </Text>
+          ) : null}
+          {(() => {
+            switch (errorStatus) {
+              case "invalid":
+                return "Some fields contain errors. Please correct and submit again."
+              case "patronIneligible":
+                return patronEligibilityStatus ? (
+                  <PatronErrors
+                    patronEligibilityStatus={patronEligibilityStatus}
+                  />
+                ) : null
+              default:
+                return null
+            }
+          })()}
+        </Box>
       }
       mb="s"
     />
diff --git a/src/server/api/hold.ts b/src/server/api/hold.ts
index 97993bd30..c34c341c4 100644
--- a/src/server/api/hold.ts
+++ b/src/server/api/hold.ts
@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ export async function fetchPatronEligibility(
     }
 
     if (eligibilityResult.eligibility === false) {
-      return { status: 401 }
+      return { status: 401, ...eligibilityResult }
     }
 
-    return { status: 200, ...eligibilityResult } as PatronEligibilityStatus
+    return { status: 200, ...eligibilityResult }
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(
       `Error fetching hold request eligibility in fetchPatronEligibility server function, patronId: ${patronId}`,