South Carolina Code 34-39-280. Extended payment plans
(B) To request an extended payment plan, the customer, before the due date of the outstanding deferred presentment transaction, must request the plan and sign an amendment to the deferred presentment agreement that memorializes the plan’s terms.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-39-280
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Board: means the State Board of Financial Institutions. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
- Check: means a check signed by the maker and made payable to a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
- Licensee: means a person licensed to provide deferred presentment services pursuant to this chapter. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
- Location: means the entire space in which deferred presentment services are provided. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
- Person: means an individual, group of individuals, partnership, association, corporation, or other business unit or legal entity. See South Carolina Code 34-39-120
(C) The extended payment plan’s terms must allow the customer, at no additional cost, to repay the outstanding deferred presentment transaction including any fee due in at least four substantially equal installments. Each plan installment must be due on or after a date on which the customer receives regular income. The customer may prepay an extended payment plan in full at any time without penalty. The licensee shall not charge the customer any interest or additional fees during the term of the extended payment plan. The licensee may, with each payment under the plan by a customer, provide for the return of the customer’s prior held check and require a new check for the remaining balance under the plan. Alternatively, the licensee may require the customer at the time the customer enters into the extended payment plan to provide multiple checks, one for each of the scheduled payments in the amount of those payments.
(D) If the customer fails to pay any extended payment plan installment when due, the customer shall be in default of the payment plan and the licensee immediately may accelerate payment on the remaining balance. Upon default, the licensee may take action to collect all amounts due.
(E) If a customer enters into an extended repayment plan, the licensee must enter that information into the database established in § 34-39-175, and the customer and a licensee is prohibited from entering into a subsequent deferred presentment transaction until repayment in full of the original deferred presentment transaction.
(F) At each licensed location, a licensee shall prominently post a notice in at least twenty-four point bold type, in a form established or approved by the board, informing persons that if they are unable to repay a deferred presentment transaction when due they shall be eligible to enter into one extended payment plan in a twelve month period. A licensee also shall notify a person of his right to an extended payment plan by displaying the following statement, in at least twelve point bold type, on the first page of each deferred presentment agreement: "If you are unable to repay a deferred presentment transaction when due, you are eligible to request one extended payment plan in a twelve month period."