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- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Path: sparky!uunet!Cadence.COM!cheng
- From: cheng@Cadence.COM (Jen Chen)
- Subject: Re: Credit Union Deposit (Share) Interest (Dividend) Calculations
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.231136.9667@Cadence.COM>
- Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- References: <7724@public.BTR.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:11:36 GMT
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- In article <7724@public.BTR.COM> timlee@public.btr.com 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 * funds withdrawn before the interest is posted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
-
- One more trick from AEA Credit Union saving account is
- if you withdraw money by the end of each quarter, you will
- lose the interest for the whole 3-month period.
-
- It offer lower interest rate than CD, but requirement is more
- strict than CD. No wonder credit union is more profitable than
- banks.
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