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Walk It Through: The Payday Loan

A small loan before payday, its size, its fee, its due date and the yearly count.

A worker short on rent takes out a small loan from a licensed lender before payday.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One borrower and one licensed lender. Licensing, the lender's disclosures and a returned check are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.