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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Make pay-day loans illegal!
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Pay-day loans are of no benefit to our country in the slightest.
Constant advertisements target the elderly, which some senior members of the public taking out loans to buy Christmas presents for family without being able to pay them back.
This has to stop now! The adverts and the increasing debt. American states have started to ban them and so should we.
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