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Lawmakers purpose restrictions on Payday Loans
Posted: 02.19.2010 at 5:31 AM
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Three Missouri lawmakers are proposing tough restrictions on Payday Loan companies.

Their legislation would cap how much interest a Payday Loan store could charge and extend the period of time a consumer has to repay the loan.

Columbia State Rep. Mary Still says Missouri’s lax laws allow the companies to thrive, at the expense of consumers.

"These are businesses; they love areas where there are low-income people,” said Still. “People that work hard and have a paycheck and can least afford to lose this amount of money."

Still filed a similar bill last year that never made it out of the committee.

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