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BancorpSouth introduces prepaid debit card program

MBJ Staff — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:29:55 +0000

TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has launched the BancorpSouth Prepaid Card program designed to serve as an alternative to traditional checking accounts. “The Prepaid Card program puts customers in control of their funds, and having no minimum balance or overdraft fees make the cards ideal for budgeting, travel and students,” said Derek Caswell , BancorpSouth first [...]

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Fitch suspends state’s prepaid college tuition program

Associated Press — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:31:21 +0000

JACKSON — State Treasurer Lynn Fitch has told lawmakers that she suspended the state’s prepaid college tuition program because it is struggling financially and an audit will show whether it needs to be overhauled or scrapped, as many other states with similar programs have done. Fitch appeared yesterday before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Until [...]

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West gets suspended sentence for mishandling funeral funds

Associated Press — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:53:09 +0000

NATCHEZ — Former Natchez Alderman Theodore “Bubber” West has been given a suspended sentence after entering an open plea to charges he failed to put money from prepaid funeral policies into a proper trust. The attorney general’s office says West’s open plea meant that he refused to accept the state’s recommended sentence and threw himself [...]

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