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- Issue Brief
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Senior Checking Accounts: Are They Worth It?
Banks offer special accounts for specific populations. Consumers should evaluate their options carefully before choosing their account type. As Americans open checking accounts across the country, many are often offered special products that banks market exclusively to seniors.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Student Checking Accounts: Are They Worth It?
Banks offer special accounts for specific populations. Consumers should evaluate their options carefully before choosing their account type. As Americans open checking accounts across the country, many are often offered special products that banks market exclusively to students.
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- Press Release
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Pew's Comments: Impact of Overdraft Programs
Letter to Monica Jackson, Office of the Executive Secretary at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, from Susan K. Weinstock, Project Director of Pew Center on the States' Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project, regarding the Impact of Overdraft Programs.
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- Issue Brief
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Overdraft America: Confusion and Concerns About Bank Practices
Are consumers knowingly consenting to overdraft coverage or are they signing up for a potentially costly product that they don’t understand? more
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- Press Release
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
TD Bank Adopts Pew's Simple Disclosure Document
Pew commends TD Bank, Illinois’ Inland Bank, University of Illinois Employees Credit Union, and Tennessee’s Eastman Credit Union for voluntarily adopting Pew’s model checking account disclosure form. more
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April 11, 2012
Key Focus Group Findings on Prepaid Debit Cards
This fact sheet focuses on the lessons learned from consumers who purchase and use prepaid debit cards. more
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- Issue Brief
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Regulatory Comment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Streamlining Inherited Regulations
The Pew Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project responds to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s call for comments on Docket ID CFPB-2011-0039. more
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- Issue Brief
- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Pew's Call for Simple Bank Fee Disclosure Gains Traction with Financial Institutions
Pew's research shows that the median length of bank disclosures for key checking account policies and fee information is 111 pages. Based on this finding, Pew developed a disclosure form, similar to what is currently used in credit card offers. Pew commends a few financial institutions for voluntarily adopting our disclosure box.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Making Checking Accounts Safer and More Transparent
These fact sheets summarize Pew’s policy recommendations to make checking accounts safer and more transparent.
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November 22, 2011
Regulatory Comment: Financial Habits and Patterns of Low- and Moderate-Income Households
This regulatory comment provides recommendations on Treasury’s prioritization of financial access activities.
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