[GPSCC-chat] Fw: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California

[John Thielking]

I'm currently using my Direct Express debit card for receiving my SSDI payments. I have the option of being charged $1.50 to make one big deposit into my Chase checking account and then using the free ATMs to make withdrawls. I am being charged $10 per month for having less than the minimum required balance in my checking account. Since I'm trying to avoid using Chase altogether (see previous e-mails on this for background) and I don't yet have another checking account that I could use in Eugene, OR in June, I'm stuck being charged $3 per ATM withdrawl at any ATM other than Chase so that I don't give any more money to Chase.  It would be nice if I weren't being charged the $3 each time I use the ATMs, but for now I'm not complaining too much. I'm just glad to no longer be using Chase for much of anything. Can the CA benefits card be used as a regular debit card/charge card? If so there should be no fees when it is used at a store to make a purchase and
 get cash back. 

John Thielking




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Subject: Sign the petition: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California


 
Mark, sign the petition telling big banks in California to stop ripping off welfare recipients $19 million per year in ATM fees. Click here to sign the petition.

In California and elsewhere, most recipients of the state’s welfare-to-work program receive their monthly checks through an EBT (electronic benefit transfer) card.

But each time they use these cards to get cash, the banks charge them an ATM fee.

A recent study found that in 2012 big banks took more than $19 million out of the pockets of low-income Californians alone—just from ATM fees on their EBT cards. The average family on CalWORKS (the state’s welfare-to-work program) earns about $510 per month.

Citibank has, to its credit, agreed to waive ATM fees for state-issued EBT cards. But big banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue this abhorrent practice.

Sign the petition to the big banks, telling them to stop ripping off California’s welfare-to-work recipients to the tune of $19 million per year in ATM fees.

Keep fighting,
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