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Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits
Out of work and living on a $189-a-week unemployment check, Rob Linville needs to watch every penny. Lately, he has been watching too many pennies disappear into the coffers of the bank that administers his unemployment check via a prepaid debit card.
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Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits
Out of work and living on a $189-a-week unemployment check, Rob Linville needs to watch every penny. Lately, he has been watching too many pennies disappear into the coffers of the bank that administers his unemployment check via a prepaid debit card.
The state ( Read more... )
And before that, when I worked in retail, I was paid on a pre-paid Visa card because I didn't have a bank account for direct deposit (Because I Got Into It with Chase after they charged me for three overdraft fees of $32 each when the state took money illegally out of my account-- lol that is another whole thing I won't get into here).
Those had fees for using them, fees for not using them, fees for checking balance, fees for withdrawing money, fees for everything. So I was getting paid about $350 a month at the time, and the only way I could avoid it going to Visa was withdrawing everything at once (~luckily~ I wasn't paid enough to have to use more than one atm transaction for that) and the only fee I would get then is--you guessed it-- the atm transaction fee. Before that, I'd have to go to a place like Moneytree or worse to cash my paycheck, and they would take fees and a percentage. And of COURSE, I had to still give money to big banks because a lot of bills had to be paid with money orders. There's just no way to get around needing a bank in this day and age.
Now I do my banking at a couple of community banks that are awesome, and relatively fee-free. I even get some pretty epic interest on my checking. (It used to be 4%, but they've been gradually lowering, down to %2.6) Both banks have free atm usage, plus competitor atm fee refunds.
IN CASE YOU ALL HAVEN'T SEEN THIS:
MOVE YOUR MONEY
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