Pay day is around two weeks from today but you are running out of finances, what are you going to do? Your credit card has reached its limit so that is no longer an option. You do not have bank savings to depend on anyway. Don’t panic just yet. There is still an option for you. Have you ever heard of payday loans?

Payday loans are short-term loans. Usually, they mature for a span of two-weeks, just in time for the next pay day. The pay day loan is also a small loan. The amount borrowed usually is the amount needed just to make the ends meet until the next payday. Pay check advances or payday advances can either be borrowed through retail lending or internet lending. Payday loans must be paid in full on the next payday, unlike other unsecured and secured loans which you can pay on installment basis. Because it is a given that loans have corresponding interest rates, pay day loans usually have 15 to a maximum 30 percent interest rate for a two-week loan. For you to be able to make a pay day loan, a post-dated check will be asked by the lending company. After the two-week span, or on the maturity date, you are expected to come back to the lending company to pay your loan personally. If on the maturity date the person does not come back to pay the loan, then the creditor will process electronically or traditionally the withdrawal of the amount that the person owed from his checking account.

There are instances when the checking accounts of borrowers do not have enough money to pay back the loan. The post dated check will know be called a bouncing check. Usually, banks issue fines for people who issue bouncing checks. The amount of the fines differs from one bank to the other. Aside from the fines imposed by banks, there are also other consequences that the bouncing check will bring to the borrower. Lending agencies impose additional interest rates for the pay day loan that do not get to pay the loan within the maturity date. The National Trade Association requires their member lending companies to provide an extension of payment for borrowers who were not able to pay their payday loan on time. There are also states, such as Washington, whose state laws require no additional fees for extension of payment plans.