State Employees CU ScrapsFees

RALEIGH, N.C. - (08/09/04) -- State Employees' CU said iteliminated the service fees on a number of products, saying it wasseeking to make basic financial services more cost effective formembers. Fees for check copies and statements, debit card reissuesand travelers checks have all been dropped. In the case of the feefor check and statement copies, SECU had been offering the copiesfree via the secured Member Access section of the SECU website,ncsecu.org. But members who needed to order paper copies werecharged 50 cents for the first two copies and $1 for eachadditional copy. In the case of debit cards, after being free atfirst issue, a $3 fee had been charged on expired or lostcards.