Payday Lenders Breach Usury Laws, Senate Committee Told

Every payday loan company in the country is currently in breach of usury laws, the Senate banking committee has been told. Interest charged payday borrowers would be a fraction of existing rates if Parliament enforced the Criminal Code, an economist says: “Rates violate the current federal criminal rate set at 60%”.

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