{"id":280,"date":"2009-05-22T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-04-06T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:59:27","slug":"federal-credit-card-laws-including-gift-card-provisions-signed-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Federal Credit Card Laws Including Gift Card Provisions Signed Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has signed the Credit Card Reform Act into law. For a breakdown of how it affects gift cards, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/money\/2009\/05\/the-credit-card-bill-that-passed-the-senate-yesterday-httpblogsconsumerreportsorgmoney200905senate-passes-credit.html\">here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendyourdollars.org\/2009\/05\/some_more_money_in_your_pocket.html\">here<\/a>. The new rules won&#8217;t take effect until February of 2010. One of the most overlooked features of the law is that the Federal Reserve now has jurisdiction over gift cards, meaning it can set how high fees can be and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has signed the Credit Card Reform Act into law. For a breakdown of how it affects gift cards, see\u00a0here and\u00a0here. The new rules won&#8217;t take effect until February of 2010. One of the most overlooked features of the law is that the Federal Reserve now has jurisdiction over gift cards, meaning it can [&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-280","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\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}