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Article by Paul Shipp of Kansas Legal Services
The number of Payday lenders has grown at an oddly rapid rate over the past few decades, mainly in low income areas. Typically these lenders market directly to low income borrowers, notably those on a steady, fixed, and certain income. Borrowers are often at or below the poverty level; many live off only fixed incomes and are elderly or disabled.
Here are the slides from the free webinar KLS held on Driver's License Issues in Kansas. You can download them below.
Here is a video of the webinar.
Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday, April 18, signed a bill removing mandatory jail time for driving with a license suspended or revoked for failing to appear in court on a traffic ticket or failing to pay a traffic fine.
Special report from the Center for Responsible Lending, June 2023
The national Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) reports that single-payment and payday installment loans in 31 states drain more than $2.2 billion in fees per year from borrowers whose average incomes are approximately $25,000 a year.
Car-title loans drain more than $700 million annually from borrowers in 17 states.
Together these predatory loans drain almost $3 billion annually from those families who can least afford it.
Can't afford your traffic tickets but still need to drive? Kansas lawmakers consider help
Jason Alatidd, Topeka Capital-Journal September 8, 2023
Kansas lawmakers are looking for ways to help low-income people avoid losing their driving privileges if they can't afford to pay a traffic ticket.
A powerful set of financial firms have delayed federal investigations or punishments into their allegedly predatory lending practices, as they seize on an industry-led lawsuit challenging the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
By Tony Romm, October 28 Washington Post
By Micah Tempel, Director, Suspended to Reinstated Project, KLS.
More than 200,000 Kansans have a suspended driver’s license, and the vast majority of these suspensions — 150,000 — have nothing to do with dangerous driving or posing a public safety risk on the roads. Instead, an inability to pay a traffic fine or missing a court date leads most Kansans to a suspended license, compounding their economic hardships by making it illegal for them to drive to work, to the grocery store, and to take their children to school.
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