{"id":116,"date":"2008-12-23T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-04-03T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:24:28","slug":"more-fair-gift-card-act-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Fair Gift Card Act&#8221; details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Charles Schumer announced today details on what he calls the &#8220;Fair Gift Card Act&#8221; that he hopes will be passed next year. Those details include gift cards being free of fees for two years, and thereafter a maximum of $1 in fees per months. Sounds like a solid improvement. Incidentally, from this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersunion.org\/pub\/core_financial_services\/001712.html\">letter<\/a> I found from Consumers Union, it sounds like Sen. Schumer has been trying to get such a law passed since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>If you care, I urge you to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/~schumer\/SchumerWebsite\/contact\/webform.cfm\">contact<\/a> Sen. Schumer and asking him to include open-loop gift cards in his bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Charles Schumer announced today details on what he calls the &#8220;Fair Gift Card Act&#8221; that he hopes will be passed next year. Those details include gift cards being free of fees for two years, and thereafter a maximum of $1 in fees per months. Sounds like a solid improvement. Incidentally, from this\u00a0letter I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}