What is a debit card?
What is a debit card?
- November 25, 2024
- Bill Maurer, anthropology, U.S. News and World Report, Nov. 25, 2024
"With a debit card, you're accessing, via a card, money that's in your bank account," says Bill Maurer, director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. … Maurer suggests turning off overdraft protection on a debit card – which entails using funds from another linked account (such as a savings account) to cover transactions – because a thief could drain your checking account and keep spending.
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