Good morning! CNN has an interesting article about how debit cards used to administer unemployment benefits are charging fees from $.40 to $3.50 per transaction.
Meh!
Is this fair?
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I guess everyone is making money off the economy
It sucks.
That happened to my husband in AZ. He got 4 “free” transactions, and after that, it was a dollar a transaction, plus whatever charges from whatever ATM.
For some reason, they wouldn’t do direct deposit. I never could get a straight answer to that.
We just used one of those free transactions and withdrew the money to the nearest 5 dollars and physically took the cash into the credit union. There was always enough left in from the previous month to cover the ATM fee.
It was like they made a stressful time even more, for no reason at all.
@Money: For shame.
@Jeanine: Thank you for sharing with me. I’m not a fan of fees.