Hidden Cost of Payday Loans: Bank Fees
Payday lenders, recognizing that a $300 payment request from a customer's bank account may not be fulfilled, may submit three $100 requests, hoping that at least one will be fulfilled. But those other two payment requests can each result in overdraft fees. A recent CFPB study found that about half of the accounts it examined had a loan payment request fail, incurring an average of $185 in bank fees over the duration of the study. [4/20/16]


