Article: EBT Surcharging At Issue In Suit Against First Data.

Surcharging bans on ATMs in the commercial world have never gained legal traction. However, ATM processors that pass along ATM surcharges do so at their own peril for many transactions involving electronic benefits transfer cardholders.

Many state EBT contracts either cap or ban surcharging for EBT withdrawals, as Greenwood Village, Colo-based First Data Corp. recently can attest. FDC acquired Concord EFS - the nation's largest processor of EBT transactions - last year. Concord is now on the hook for what could be a million dollars as a result of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in 2002 accusing Concord of surcharging EBT recipients of Temporary ...

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