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What do borrowers use payday loans for?

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Medical emergencies

Regular bills

As an alternative to other loans

All of the above

All of the above. People take out payday loans for many different reasons.

If you have a short-term financial emergency, what is a low-cost way to obtain a loan?

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Payday loan

Emergency credit union loan

Credit card

Emergency credit union loan. Many credit unions and banks offer relatively low-interest short-term loans that can help tide you over a short-term financial emergency.

Which of the following best describes how payday loans differ from bank and peer-to-peer (P2P) loans in terms of repayment time?

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You can pay back a payday loan over many years.

Payday loans must be repaid within weeks.

Payday loans and bank loans both offer similar repayment periods.

Payday loans have the longest repayment time.

Payday loans must be repaid within weeks. Banks and P2P platforms let you take much longer to pay loans back.

It is possible to pay more in fees on a payday loan than the amount you originally borrowed.

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True

False

True. If you extend the loan or take out a different one to cover it, and you did this several times in a row, you might actually pay more in interest than the actual loan itself.

All credit cards are a form of predatory lending.

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True

False

False. Some credit cards have very high fees and other predatory features, but many of them do not.

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