home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky misc.consumers:15171 misc.invest:10618
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!mips!public!public.btr.com!timlee
- From: timlee@public.btr.com
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.invest
- Subject: Credit Union Deposit (Share) Interest (Dividend) Calculations
- Message-ID: <7724@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:20:49 GMT
- Sender: timlee@public.BTR.COM
- Followup-To: misc.consumers
- Distribution: usa
- Lines: 33
-
- Based on the credit union that I just became eligible to use,
- and some information from people using other credit unions, it
- seems that it is much more common among credit unions to use
- tricky or sleazy ways of calculating interest payments. For
- example:
-
- * lowest balance of the month or quarter
- * deposits after the 10th of the month do not gain
- interest until the 1st of the next month
- * deposits from the 1st to the 10th of the month
- gain interest from the 1st of the same month
- * funds withdrawn before the interest is posted
- do not earn interest
-
- Every other depository institution that I've asked (bank,
- savings & loan, industrial loan company) pays interest based on
- daily balance or average balance of the month or quarter.
- The only real trick that I've seen is that accounts being
- closed do not earn interest for the last month (this appears
- fairly common at banks, less so at other depository institutions).
- I've heard of banks paying 88% of the advertised rate, but that
- doesn't happen in this area.
-
- Since credit unions are supposed to be run only in the interest
- of their members, why is it that tricky or sleazy interest
- calculations seem to be more common with credit unions?
- Shouldn't members of such credit unions use their voting
- power to change the credit unions' interest policies?
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Timothy J. Lee timlee@btr.com ...!decwrl!btr!timlee
- This message comes with no warranty, not even an implied warranty of
- fitness for any particular purpose.
-