'There was no way to pay rent without another cash advance': How one woman broke the cycle of relying on quick cash apps

When Anastasia McClain received her regular paycheck, she didn’t expect to see 100% of the funds vanish before her eyes, withdrawn by cash-advance apps she had grown to rely on over the course of a year. “There was no way to pay rent without another cash advance,” McClain told MarketWatch (1). Must Read What McClain, an IT professional making about $40,000 at the time, didn’t know — and what cash-advance apps may not advertise — is that she had the right to revoke an app's authorization to pull money fr ...