Finding Banks With Free Overdraft Protection
Overdraft protection is a system whereby a bank will cover (pay for) any outstanding charges not covered by the bank account holder's current balance. In exchange, the account holder must pay the bank a fee of $20 or more.
On the surface, this sounds like a good thing. After all, the bank is "protecting" the account holder by not allowing his or her charges to be rejected or to have checks bounce. However, many critics believe that overdraft protection programs are just a cleverly-disguised way for banks to make more money. And, they could be right: in recent years, banks have been making about $25 billion in revenues annually off of overdraft fees alone! Clearly, overdraft protection is big business for the nation's banks.


