No Teletrack Payday Loans Vs. Overdraft Fees
In order to avoid negative payday loan legislation, payday lending companies are becoming more and more complex, with the need for even greater expenses. These companies are currently devising alternative strategies in order to achieve a less expensive alternative to overdraft charges. The main idea is to eliminate these overdraft charges and increase the annual interest rates to a maximum of 400%.
A recent analysis, made by USA Today, shows that customers spend an average $26.68 dollars on an overdraft fee each time they overdraw their account which means that an overdraw of 100 dollars would lead to an annual percentage rate of 696%, considering that the credit would be paid back in two weeks. Overall, this would be far less cost-effective than a 100 dollar payday loan with an annual percentage rate of 450% and an average fee of $17.25 dollars.
Steven Schlein, a spokesman for the Community Financial Services Association of the trade group for payday lenders, declared that payday lending can be seen as a cheaper alternative to overdraft charges if the legislators would be focusing on overdraft protection on the Bill.













