UPDATE - The administrators published their 1st progress report on 24 September. They had identifed 256,000 Wageday Advance customers as being owed redress for unaffordable payday loans. Of these, about 100,000 claims were submitted by customers (99,416 electronically and over 1,000 manually) before the deadline at the end of August. The administrators expect customers who sent claims … [Read more...]
January 2019 – Wageday Advance proposes cutting the refunds it pays
On 31 January 2019, Curo, the American parent of payday lender Wageday Advance (WDA) announced it is in talks with the FCA about a Scheme of Arrangement (SOA) for its redress liabilities in the UK. See Curo's statement in its end of year results. These liabilities are the payday loan refunds that WDA is having to pay to current and previous customers who were given unaffordable … [Read more...]
Wageday Advance – delaying complaints and in financial trouble?
Update: on 26 February the FCA announced that Wageday Advance has gone into administration. See Wageday Advance (WDA) goes under – pre pack sale to Morses Club for details. Wageday Advance (WDA) is not giving its customer a Final Response to complaints within eight weeks. At the end of the eight weeks it is telling customers it needs another eight weeks to consider their … [Read more...]