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<b>From:</b> "Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos" <campaigns@dailykos.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wed Mar 26 11:09:57 PDT 2014<br>
<b>To:</b> originalpatriot@RiseUp.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Sign the petition: ATM fees robbing welfare-to-work funds in California<br>
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<td><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Mark, <b><a href="http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2SsQXb6cdbf28A82RObS4JIeMXHcL%2F9W">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.</a></b><br />
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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.<br />
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But each time they use these cards to get cash, the banks charge them an ATM fee.<br />
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A recent <a href="http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YuJ2Kay%2BlPmk7LFwjPQFy5IeMXHcL%2F9W">study</a> found that in 2012 big banks took <i>more than $19 million</i> 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<b><a href="http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gLuj5nCs7R7ItoXMSlEobZIeMXHcL%2F9W">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.</a></b><br />
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Keep fighting,<br />
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos</p><!-- TemplateEndEditable --></td>
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