The Savings Game
Do you pay off credit cards monthly? New law won’t help you, and might even hurt
If you have $10,000 in credit card debt at 18 percent interest and send just the minimum payment of 2.5 percent of the balance each month, it would take you more than 30 years to pay it all off. (Full article: 479 words)
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