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Watchdog groups are up in arms because, under Mulvaney, the CFPB has put on hold a rule that would restrict payday lenders and their high-interest-rate loans. The agency has also dropped a lawsuit against online lenders charging 900 percent interest rates. Critics say these moves are payback for campaign contributions to Mulvaney when he was a congressman representing South Carolina.,Mercedes says he borrowed $450 and had to pay $45 in interest for the two-week loan.

To get the loan, he left a check for the lender to cash the day he got paid by his employer — hence the term payday loans.,Christopher Peterson, a law professor at the University of Utah, says the problem is that 'one payday loan often leads to another payday loan and so on into a debt trap.','The average borrower is taking out eight of these loans per year,' he says. 'Some are taking out nine, 10, 15 or more loans per year. These costs can really add up.',Some people at the Advance America branch were clearly regular customers.
Peterson says that by getting payday loans paycheck after paycheck, you're paying an annual interest rate of 200 percent to 300 percent — sometimes even higher depending on state regulations. And, he says, lenders taking money directly from people's checking accounts can trigger overdraft fees and other costs and problems.,Peterson worked for the Defense Department helping to draft regulations under the Military Lending Act, which banned these high-interest payday loans for service members.,'These loans have been found by Congress to be so dangerous that they have been prohibited for the military, and it was George W. Bush that signed that into law,' he says of the Republican former president.,The rule doesn't go as far as the military version. But it does require lenders to make sure people can afford to pay the loans back. And it was just about to start being phased into effect this month.,Mulvaney once introduced legislation to abolish the bureau and called the CFPB a 'sick, sad' joke.

He also accepted money from payday lenders.,'It is outrageous,' Calhoun says. 'Mulvaney took over $60,000 in campaign cash from the payday lenders when he was in Congress.
He is deep in the pocket of the payday lenders and he's doing everything he can to help them.',Payday lenders, as might be expected, are happy to see the rule put on hold. Jamie Fulmer, with Advance America, says the rule would be too burdensome to implement for such small-dollar loans. (Many states cap the total amount for a payday loan at $500.) And he says it would cut off loans for his customers who need them.,Calhoun says that's not true because under the rule, lenders could make up to six loans a year to the same person in basically the same way they do now. The loans would just have to be 30 days apart.,If a customer starts taking out payday loan after payday loan beyond that, the rule would kick in.

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Though Calhoun says he is worried that with Mulvaney running the consumer bureau, the rule might never kick in at all.,Calhoun says if Mulvaney moves to scrap the payday loan rule, his nonprofit and others will file lawsuits to try to preserve it.,Payday lenders appear to have a sympathetic ear in an unexpected part of Washington, the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Republican former Congressman Mick Mulvaney.
He's holding up a rule that would have restricted payday lenders and their high interest rate loans. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.,ARNOLD: He says he borrowed $450 and had to pay $45 in interest for the two-week loan. To get it, he left a check for the lender to cash the day that he got paid by his employer. That's why they're called payday loans.

Now, a credit card, if you paid it back on time, wouldn't cost anything.
But Mercedes says he has bad credit, and he doesn't use credit cards anymore because he had bigger debt problems when he did.,CHRISTOPHER PETERSON: The problem is that one payday loan often leads to another payday loan and so on into a debt trap.,PETERSON: The average borrower is taking out eight of these loans per year, and that's the average borrower. Some are taking out 9, 10, 15 or more loans per year.
These costs can really add up.,ARNOLD: Some people at the Advance America branch were clearly regular customers.

Peterson says getting these loans paycheck after paycheck, you're paying an annual interest rate of around 300 percent. Sometimes it's even more.
Peterson worked for the Defense Department helping to draft regulations which banned these high-interest payday loans for service members.,PETERSON: These loans have been found by Congress to be so dangerous that they have been prohibited for the military. And it was George W. Bush that signed that into law.,ARNOLD: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau crafted its own payday rule for the rest of the country.

It doesn't go as far as the military version, but it requires lenders to make sure that people can afford to pay the loans back. And it was just about to start getting phased into effect this month, but now...,ARNOLD: Mike Calhoun is the president of the Center for Responsible Lending. Consumer watchdogs like him are upset that President Trump recently chose former Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney to run the Consumer Bureau.

As a congressman, Mulvaney proposed abolishing the bureau altogether, and he took campaign contributions from payday lenders. Now that he's running the bureau, he's put this rule on hold, saying it will be, quote, 'reconsidered.' And the CFPB has dropped an investigation into a lender who donated to Mulvaney's campaign.,CALHOUN: It is outrageous. Mulvaney is deep in the pocket of the payday lenders, and he's doing everything he can to help them.,ARNOLD: Mulvaney declined requests for an interview, but he's said in the past that he doesn't think campaign contributions present a conflict of interest for him.

Payday lenders, as you might expect, are happy to see the rule put on hold. Jamie Fulmer is with Advance America. He says the rule would cut off loans for his customers who need them.,ARNOLD: Calhoun disputes that. He says, actually, lenders could still make up to six loans a year basically the same way that they do now.

After that, the rule would kick in.
But he's worried that with Mulvaney running the Consumer Bureau, the rule might never kick in at all. Chris Arnold, NPR News.

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