South Carolina Governor McMaster signed Senate Bill 700, the Earned Wage Access Services Act, into law this week. This is a significant step forward in innovation and meeting workers’ modern needs, and adds to the growing list of states supporting earned wage access. We owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to Tom Davis for his leadership, as well as to Senator Wes Climer, Chairman Rep. Bill Sandifer, and Rep. Bart Blackwell for championing this bill. S.700 is a testament to our collective commitment to workers to ensure safe and accessible financial services, empowering people to manage their finances with greater flexibility and dignity. Great work to Yvonne Chao for your work and dedication on the issue on behalf of EarnIn and the customers we serve. You can read more about the bill here: https://lnkd.in/gjk6g6a3 #EarnedWageAccess #EarnIn
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Earned Wage Access is growing in popularity, and the US Congress has released the "Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act". The bill require that providers offer a fee-free option. It also prevent providers from using external debt collectors to pursue repayment. The restriction on the use of debt collectors looks like a progressive win and should lead to EWA providers building robust customer care departments internally. I have to wonder how the collection industry let this one slip by without putting their best lobbyists to work fighting against it.
Congress Advances Earned Wage Access Bill as Popularity Grows
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On July 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Proposed Interpretive Rule and Request for Comment (Proposed Rule) addressing credit products in the paycheck advance marketplace, such as those marketed as “earned wage access” or “earned wage advance” products (EWA). The Proposed Rule intends “to help market participants determine when certain existing requirements under Federal law are triggered.” 📖 Read more in this #GTAlert written by Shane Foster, W. H. Langley Perry, Jr., Lisa Lanham, and Rinaldo Martinez: https://buff.ly/4d0j1e4. #CFPB #EarnedWagesAccess #FinancialServices
CFPB Proposes Interpretive Rule for Earned Wage Access Products | Insights | Greenberg Traurig LLP
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Terri Bradford, Kansas City Fed's advanced payments specialist, has published a new Payments Briefing on earned wage access (EWA). Here is an overview: ◼️ Earned wage access has gained popularity. ◼️ These services come with risks, including complex fee structures and high transaction costs. ◼️ These services operate in a regulatory gray area, and states have taken the lead on enacting EWA laws. ◼️ The adoption of instant payments may be integral to shifting toward a better alternative service for accessing earned wages early. To read the full briefing, go to https://bit.ly/44Nhh5I.
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Financial Technology Association Urges Connecticut General Assembly to Modify Harmful Earned Wage Access Bill “Several EWA providers have already left Connecticut due to the restrictive and improper guidelines imposed by the Department of Banking,” said Penny Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Technology Association. “The legislation threatens to leave Connecticut workers without a no-cost option to access their wages and meet their financial needs.” https://lnkd.in/ejsBztVU Miranda Margowsky #fintech #finance #banking #paytech #payments #fintechnews #paymentsnews
FTA Urges Connecticut General Assembly to Modify Harmful Earned Wage Access Bill
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Inflation follows and then the rate hikes. Systematic plunder.
Interesting. This is double the raise they gave seniors for a "cost of living" increase in CPP and OAS. The private sector isn't getting any raises either, but is expected to pay for this.
Federal workers to get minimum wage hike on day of carbon tax increase
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More money for fewer days in the office? Why stop there? Let's throw in 16 weeks of annual leave a year, a first-class ticket to any country of their choice twice a year, and a rent/mortgage subsidy. And in a sign of goodwill during negotiations, let's not point out that these demands are taking place during a cost-of-living crisis affecting the taxpayers who would pay these salaries. https://lnkd.in/euFvgTvW
Public servants demand four day week plus 12pc pay rise
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"During Tuesday night’s debate, Trump and Harris discussed the economy, but neither referenced the simplest available move to reduce poverty and inequality: raise the minimum wage. On the campaign trail, they’ve both jumped on an idea to eliminate the federal income tax on tips. This is populist [...] that would accomplish nothing. Workers who depend on tips comprise just 2.5% of the workforce, and most don’t make enough to pay income tax. Meanwhile, one can imagine private equity firms and real estate brokers finding law firms to restructure their carried interest fees and commissions as “tips.” BTW, nearly every change to the tax code over the past 40 years has transferred wealth from the young/middle-class to corporations and the überwealthy, who are enjoying their lowest tax burden since 1939 and paying single-digit tax rates. UC Berkeley economist Michael Reich and University of Victoria economist Justin Wiltshire recently wrote, “Outside the theoretical world, economists have conducted hundreds of studies on the actual effects of minimum wage. They repeatedly find that increasing the minimum wage raises the pay of low-wage workers, without leading to even minor job losses. Prices increase by minimal amounts that are too small to deter anyone from buying a burger or taco.” An April 2024 study by University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon economists found much the same thing. Co-author Nirupama Rao said, “Our results show clearly that minimum wages do little harm to independent firms and even benefit some owners while meaningfully increasing both the earnings and employment of young and low-earning workers. Of course, these gains to workers and owners are financed by consumers, who appear fairly inelastic in their overall demand for the goods and services furnished by independent businesses affected by minimum wage policies.” According to a 2021 study by the Congressional Budget Office, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift 900,000 people out of poverty. And a 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, estimated that raising the minimum wage to $15 could lead to an annual increase in consumer spending of $22 billion." (nomercynomalice@mail.profgalloway.com, September 13, 2024)
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A very interesting but substantial opinion piece from Bloomberg on Starmer’s government and its apparently vindictive approach to policy and delight in paying off its union support. They are indulging their core support from deeply vested interests while not seeking improved productivity and modern work practices. This is bold when the landslide vote result obscures the meagre 34% share of vote. “A deeper reason is that needlessly antagonizing Middle England will do nothing to address the country’s underlying problem, its dismal growth rate. Labour’s central promise was to improve productivity. Yet it failed to use pay rises as a way of pushing through productivity improvements — and now risks setting off a competitive round of wage inflation. It was all quid and no quo. Giving productivity-free pay rises to strike-prone workers while claiming that there’s a financial crisis is not a good way of building sustainable support for your policies”.
Keir Starmer’s Team Has It In for Middle England
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