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- From: bkwg0457@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Whitlock)
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- Subject: Re: Credit Union Deposit (Share) Interest (Dividend) Calculations
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:46:47 GMT
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- timlee@public.btr.com (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
-
- >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 * funds withdrawn before the interest is posted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?
-
- Yes, some credit unions are not very good. A few are. I am lucky enough
- to be a member of one really good credit union and one pretty good one. The
- other two that I have been members of are pretty poor. The fault is with
- the management of the credit unions. It would be great if you could organize
- a members' revolt against the policies of the credit union and get them
- changed. I would think that it would be easier to volunteer at the credit
- union yourself, and work your way up to the Board of Directors where you
- could change things. Good luck.
-
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- Brent Whitlock Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
- bwhitlock@uiuc.edu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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