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  2. What happens if you don’t pay your secured credit card bill?

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    Not paying your secured credit card bill won’t land you in jail, but it definitely damages your credit score and may forfeit your security deposit. ... and you may lose the case with a default ...

  3. Credit CARD Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in its October 2013 report on the CARD Act found that between the first quarter of 2009 and December 2012, credit card interest rates increased on average from 16.2% to 18.5%, while the “total cost of credit,” that is, the total of all fees and interest paid by all consumers as a percentage of the ...

  4. Payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust ...

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    In December 2013, U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson approved a settlement in the case that amounted to $7.25 billion. [22] The settlement lowers interchange fees for merchants and also protects credit card companies from being sued over the issue again in the future. [23] That settlement was reversed.

  5. What is a credit card charge-off? - AOL

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    Key takeaways. A charge-off is a debt that has gone unpaid for a sufficient amount of time and is deemed uncollectible by the creditor. Charge-offs do not erase your debt, and you are still ...

  6. Smiley v. Citibank (South Dakota), N. A. - Wikipedia

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    Smiley v. Citibank, 517 U.S. 735 (1996), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency which included credit card late fees and other penalties within the definition of interest and thus prevented individual states from limiting them when charged by nationally-chartered banks.

  7. Best debt relief options for credit card debt - AOL

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    Beware of companies that tout government-sponsored credit card debt forgiveness programs. ... but roughly 96% of Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases are successful in ... rushing and receiving as Bills ...

  8. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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    United States Department of the Treasury. After the freeing up of world capital markets in the 1970s and the repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act in 1999, banking practices (mostly Greenspan-inspired "self-regulation") and monetized subprime mortgages sold as low risk investments reached a critical stage during September 2008, characterized by severely contracted liquidity in the global credit ...

  9. How to Pay a Credit Card Bill - AOL

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    When it comes to credit cards, keeping on top of your bills is important to maintaining or building good credit. Considering that your payment history makes up a large part of your credit, even ...