Rules Ban Colleges from Steering Students to High Cost Bank Accounts
Abusive College-Bank Marketing Agreements to be Reined In Final rules issued today from the Department of Education will protect college students from being pushed into high-fee bank accounts by their colleges, banks and bank affiliates. The rules will ban overdraft and other bank fees on some accounts jointly marketed by these financial entities. It will also require that the accounts be marketed more fairly. Maura Dundon, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending made the following statement: The new rules will protect students from being steered by their colleges to into