On Thursday, Florida faith leaders pressed forth a message that is single payday financing expansion bills presently into consideration in Tallahassee (HB 857 and SB 920) are usury and may be stopped.
Both bills look for to authorize interest that is annual of as much as 208 per cent, via compounding interest, for bigger loans along with longer terms compared to the payday advances currently allowed under Florida legislation.
Rev. Rachel Gunter Shapard for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida, noted that faith leaders are “deeply worried” about the bills that will “trap individuals with debt.”
Shapard advocated for a 30 per cent interest rate limit, stating that financing “traps people … in a period of never-ending debt,” and questioning why lawmakers are privileging the issues of loan providers over individuals.
Bishop Adam J. Richardson for the Florida AME Church asserted that the legislation permits “usury with the indegent as victims.”
