Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
Most banks automatically cover your transactions when you don’t have enough money in the bank, and charge you astronomical fees for this service. These overdraft programs are really just high-cost, short-term loans with quadruple digit APR rates.
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