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Article: Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles Launches New Program to Assist Area's Unbanked.
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- July 25, 2001
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001
On August 22, Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Los Angeles (CCCS-LA) will launch "Get Checking," a consumer education program sponsored by ChexSystems (eFunds), through which individuals excluded from banking services by choice or for (non-fraudulent) misconduct of checking accounts may once again access banking services with the cooperation of area banking institutions.
"A recent study by the Federal Reserve found that approximately 9.5 percent of U.S. families have no checking or savings account of any kind," said Joseph Onesta, director of education at CCCS-LA. "Of ...