Driven to Disaster: Car-Title Lending and Its Impact on Consumers
Joint research from CRL and the Consumer Federation of America finds that car-title loans—small-dollar loans secured by the title to a vehicle owned outright—cost U.S. consumers $3.6 billion a year in interest on $1.6 billion in loans. Read the Full Report Read the Executive Summary These products share many of payday loans' predatory features: triple-digit interest rates, balloon payments at the end of the loan's term, and—critically—a failure by the lender to evaluate a borrower's ability to repay. Car-title loans also produce the same effect that payday loans do: A debt trap that leaves too...