Thanks to a bill passed by the New York state Senate, credit card companies are disallowed from imposing ?universal default? on New York-are cardholders.
Universal default allows credit card companies to increase consumers? interest rates as a consequence of late or delinquent payments. Sponsors of the bill said it is unfair to penalize consumers with higher card rates for activities that do not have to do with their credit card payments.
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