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What Are Payday Loans?

As the name suggests, Payday loans are small cash loans that are provided for short periods of time, which is usually until the borrower’s next pay date.

These types of loans are sold both online and on the high street, with typical costs ranging from £12.00 per £100 borrowed on the high street, right through to £34.14 per £100 for loans applied for online.

High street premises that offer these types of loans will usually involve the customer receiving the cash in person, and often repaying the loan with a post-dated cheque when the loan is taken out. With an online application, the money is transferred electronically to the customer’s bank account once the loan has been approved, with the subsequent repayment also taken electronically either from the customer’s debit card or via direct debit at an agreed date. Both high street and online payday loan lenders require customers to have their own use of a bank account for the purpose of loan repayment.

Due to the short term nature of these types of loans, the Annual Percentage Rates (APRs) are extremely high and range from 334% right up to 4,400% in some cases. However, although these rates of interest do look exceptionally high, the use of APR calculations for very short term loans has been criticised for exaggerating the cost of borrowing when compared to other forms of credit. For example, the charges associated with using unauthorised bank overdrafts where the costs and fees involved are not required to be calculated as an APR percentage.

Regardless, the cost of using payday loans is still high when compared with authorised overdraft credit, and to small sum credit card borrowing, where the amount is cleared with three months of borrowing. In addition, the costs involved with borrowing from payday lenders can increase dramatically if the borrower chooses to defer their loan repayments past the original repayment date.

Many payday lenders allow their loans to be deferred or ‘rolled over’ beyond the originally agreed repayment date provided that the borrower subsequently pays another month’s fees and associated charges. The ways in which these roll over loans are handled tends to vary greatly from one payday loan provider to the other, with the best practice operators limiting the amount of roll overs allowed for each customer. However, there are some lenders who place no limits on the number of times a loan can be rolled over, which itself significantly lengthens the repayment period and greatly increases the overall cost of the loan.

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