{"id":330308,"date":"2010-02-17T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/lisa-madigan-warns-against-refund-anticipation-loans"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:29:58","slug":"lisa-madigan-warns-against-refund-anticipation-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330308","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Madigan  warns against refund anticipation loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says consumers should steer clear of refund anticipation loans while preparing 2009 tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Some tax-preparation firms offer the loans as a way to get money quickly. Tax filers get a cash advance based on their expected tax refund instead of waiting for the refund from the government. The loans are legal.<\/p>\n<p>Madigan says it&#8217;s tempting to get fast cash, especially during tough economic times. But she says the costs outweigh the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The loans can include high costs and fees, which are deducted from the consumer&#8217;s tax refunds.<\/p>\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service says more than 8 million Americans used refund anticipation loans in 2007, the latest year data was available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=359798&amp;src=143\" title=\"Lisa Madigan  warns against refund anticipation loans\" rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Por1IgicbLruSM04JZX7adfv6RQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Por1IgicbLruSM04JZX7adfv6RQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Por1IgicbLruSM04JZX7adfv6RQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Por1IgicbLruSM04JZX7adfv6RQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=nfuCvG_X87A:hSCUaYtvT7E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=nfuCvG_X87A:hSCUaYtvT7E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=nfuCvG_X87A:hSCUaYtvT7E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=nfuCvG_X87A:hSCUaYtvT7E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/nfuCvG_X87A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says consumers should steer clear of refund anticipation loans while preparing 2009 tax returns. Some tax-preparation firms offer the loans as a way to get money quickly. Tax filers get a cash advance based on their expected tax refund instead of waiting for the refund from the government. The loans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}