Questions tagged [payment]
For questions relating to sending or receiving something of value (usually money) in exchange for goods, services, or to repay debt. This includes salary or other wages paid for time worked.
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At what point can you walk out of a restaurant if they make you wait to pay the bill?
The other day, I ate at a restaurant; the food was fine, and I got to paying the bill. Their payment system went down. They couldn't accept cards; only cash, and I didn't have the cash on me for the ...
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Do I have legal obligation to change the payment method at a restaurant, if they refuse to (but have the ability to) accept my credit card?
I ate in a restaurant one day and paid with my Discover credit card. The restaurant reluctantly accepted it but told me that this card incurs a higher fee to them. The next day after my meal, they ...
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Is it legal for a store to accept payment by debit card but not be able to refund to it, even in event of staff's mistake?
A store accepts payment by payment cards, including debit and credit cards. Refunds are allowed, however due to a technical problem refunds cannot be made to debit cards.
Sometimes a refund is ...
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Getting paid by mistake after leaving a company?
Pretend someone worked at a company and was paid monthly. A month after leaving they are paid their severance, and should not receive any payment in the future.
A month later, they are contacted by ...
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Is it legal to use a VPN to buy things at a lower price?
I have seen VPN companies and their sponsees openly advertise the fact that VPNs can be used to change the apparent country you are connected from, and pay lower rates for certain products and ...
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Can a landlord force all residents to use the landlord's in-house debit card accounts?
[asking regarding state law in Ohio, U.S.A. only]
Recently I have noticed landlords issuing their residents a debit card with attached bank account. This is typically implemented without prior notice ...
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Can a university require me to use hardware authentication to pay bills?
I am a graduate student at a university in California. The university is planning a policy change which will require me to use a "hardware token" (a little device which generates one-time passwords) ...
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What are my rights if my boss paid me 600 euro too much for 2 years long?
My little brother, lets call him A for now, came to me today and said his boss, call him B, came to him and said that he (B) had been paying him (A) 600 euro too much for 2 years long. Ofcourse B ...
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Do you owe money to a company who is trying to charge a disabled/expired credit card?
A disposable credit card company from the US wrote 'recently' on their twitter
Canceling a subscription can be difficult, time consuming, and frustrating. Or it can be as easy as clicking a button ...
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Would this constitute commingling of funds?
Question about IOLA accounts (IOLA = Interest on Lawyer Account Fund, see iola.org/about-iola). (IOLA is called IOLTA in some states.)
Our client has to pay restitution to Walmart. It has taken me ...
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Can an employer force all employees to open bank accounts in the employees' names?
[asking regarding federal law in the U.S.A. only]
Recently I have noticed low wage employers such as fast food and retail requiring employees to open a bank account through the employer. Such ...
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Can a business impose a minimum amout for credit card payment without notice?
Recently, I visited a bar I regularly attend and purchased what I normally get, which has a pre-tip total of less than $10. When I went to pay the check with my credit card, I was told that there was ...
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Is a mandatory fee added to paying one's lease legal?
Is it legal for a property management company to require a convenience fee for every type of payment they accept, or must they accept some form of payment that costs nothing extra? It seems to me ...
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What kind of reward is an "inflationary lump sum"?
Some companies are giving employees what they call an "inflationary lump sum" to help them cope with cost of living issues caused by high inflation.
See for example:
https://www....
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Relative vs constant salary in US Employee and contract law
So I was listening to mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein, and he told an anecdote about salary in a hyper-inflationary economy. In the story, the employee and employer argue over the "fair" ...
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In Texas is it legal for my employer to pay two separate wages
I've been trying to find this answer for a minute, my question is in Texas is it illegal for my employer to pay two separate wages on the same stub? Example I have a CDL Class A they're giving me one ...
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Can direct payments around the court harm a divorce case?
During a divorce proceeding the court ordered the father to pay 1xxx a month in child support through the court/state supervision arrangement.
The mother is living away from the father with the child....
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When can a payment hearing be adjourned without a decision?
A person has a validated court order from the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT). The CRT does not have authority to enforce its orders but small claims court does. In the payment hearing the debtor told ...
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Refusing income or payment without tax liabilities
I am part of a non-profit organization that is insisting on paying me for my time. For personal reasons, this payment is more costly for me to accept than to disclaim it entirely.
Is there a proper ...
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Can I switch my user's payment provider without their consent?
My company uses a payout provider that pays out money to our users. However we have decided to switch to a different payout provider and we are wondering how to inform our users. During this migration ...
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How are civil judgments most typically settled?
A is suing B, and the court has awarded A £5000. Who decides how this balance should be paid, and what is the most common method of payment? Is it usually done through a bank transfer or a cheque?
Can ...
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Employer very sporadic with paydays, not sure what to do
My girlfriend works for a large chain restaurant, of which I believe she works for a franchise location.
I found it very weird that they down right refused her request to set up direct deposit, but ...
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Can a medical invoice that was disputed collect interest and be due years later?
This is a bit embarrassing. A couple years ago I had been seeing a specialist doctor. I had been a victim of a crime, so the city/police department was paying for my treatment. It had been my ...
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Why did Fortnite get banned from the App Store?
Recently, there was this conflict between Apple and the Fortnite devs, because Fortnite introduced In-App-Purchases that did not use the standard App Store payments, so that the fees did not have to ...
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Is it legal for a business to store and use my payment information in a way that I can't edit, remove, or otherwise control?
I recently moved from a townhouse where I used Waste Management for my trash and recycling pick up. The apartment I moved into takes care of trash so last month I canceled the service, got a phone ...
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Must there be a limit on late fees?
Generally speaking must late fees have some sort of cap or limit? For example if it were the libraries policy could they really charge $100 per day for unreturned books? A more realistic example, ...
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Can my employer deduct from my pay check?
Recently my employer payed me a market salary adjustment. I thought it might be an error so I contacted HR. HR assured me it was my money and I was entitled to it. Now they are telling me it was in ...
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Can a landlord require a tenant to pay for utilities that are not explicity required in the lease?
I have been a tenant for the past 6 months, and am responsibile for paying for utilities myself and have them setup under my own name. I chose not to sign up for garbage service, as it is cheaper to ...
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Website harrassing for payment for a trip I did not book.
For the past few day I am receiving emails in my gmail account from a travel company based in Belgium, SEE-EU asking for a payment of around 1000 euros for a trip to Switzerland. Initially I did not ...
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Is it legal in New South Wales to pay someone who isn't a driving instructor for supervision?
In Australia, to progress from a Learner's license to a provisional driving license, you need to drive for 120 hours supervised by a person who has a full license. However, I know that it is illegal ...
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Receiving payment for work performed a month prior to filing for unemployment and submitting weekly unemployment claim
I have been on unemployment for the month of May and am confused as to how I should answer the question "Did you work or earn wages during the week?"
My employer pays me monthly for work that was ...
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KYC (Know Your Customer) Verification Between Two Businesses
I want to add a payment service to an existing business which has already verified its customers (id, proof of address). The service is not like Stripe, because they only abstract the connection with ...
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Are loans protected by PayPal Goods & Services?
If a lender loans a borrower say $150 for the borrower to repay $250 in 3 weeks (very high/illegal interest rate) via PayPal G&S, and it turns out that the borrower refuses to repay the loan, what ...
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Can ones frequency/propensity of utilizing American (either debit or) credit cards' chargeback mechanisms affect the chances of future times' success
If one requests many chargebacks, can this degrade one's credibility in the credit card issuers/payment networks' eyes, or reduce the chances of future chargeback disputes being adjudicated in a ...
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Sanctions against Russia and Internet subscriptions
Sanctions against Russia become heavier by the day, and an answer to that question might not fit the situation in a few weeks. Please consider the situation as of today.
Say a website located in the ...
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Roommates aren't paying utilities, can I take them to small claims court?
There were 4 of us living in a condo, all 4 of us were on the lease and we paid rent separately to the landlord. The landlord covers the water bill and nothing else for utilities per our lease. The ...
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Can holiday pay be lower than the current National Minimum Wage?
If one works irregular hours in the UK one can calculate the holiday pay by calculating the average hourly pay over the last 12 weeks of work.
I quit my job (I worked 4 days a week, 8 hours a day) at ...
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Intentionally using old company address
My company moved to a new address. I notified all my clients. One client continues to pay invoices at the old address despite many many requests to update the address. It has been over 6 months now....
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I supposedly owe 91 dollars for a 4 dollar toll from half a decade ago. Can it be disputed and what penalty may I face if I don't pay?
Today I got a letter in the mail from 'Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson llp' claiming I had a 4 dollar toll from a state I pretty much never drive in back in 2018 that I now owe 91 dollars on now,...
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Cannabis Payment Processor based in the United States
I have been doing some research on the cannabis industry over the past couple of months, and from what I have been reading it is a consistently growing market, and the barriers to entry are now ...
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If a company never invoices me, am I obligated to do anything?
I hired a driving school to help me get my driver's license. My test was cancelled due to COVID and my last lesson was about a week before the test. The driving school and testing facility are two ...
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How hard is it to sue and win an employer wrongful termination or other suit
A person was hired for computer programming work. He was hired on salary. It was expected to be a full-time, 40 hours per week thing.
The company has traditionally, when asking people to work a ...
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What principal of law allows the US federal government to demand that people work without pay?
Certain US federal employees are required to work without pay in the event of a government shutdown (i.e. budgetary incompetence). If you are classified as an an essential employee, you must work with ...
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Can you request a potential additional payment at own discretion?
Let's say you sell a service/activity to a customer for €150.
Can you state something like this in your contact?
An initial €150 payment must be payed upfront.
An additional charge of €850 may apply ...
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Not getting paid for work done?
I worked in Colorado, USA for a startup.
On a Monday morning we were informed that our investor decided not to continue investing in our company and so our payroll from that last Friday was paid for/...
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Does an out-of-state (U.S.) business broker or advisor need to be licensed in the state where the business is to get paid a finder's fee?
If I am based in a state that DOES NOT require a business broker or real estate license to sell a business but I work on a deal in a state (WA, OR, CA, CO, FL, etc.) that does require that license, ...
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At what level of granularity is a client required to pay
This is more of a thought experiment more than anything else. But let's say for argument's sake that a client had a contract in place with a worker for 100/hr. And also for argument's sake, the worker ...
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Is it possible to sue a UK based company from the US regarding debt collection?
I have a US-based LLC. The LLC is a service oriented company as opposed to product oriented. And all work is performed in the US. A UK-based client is delinquent in payments.
The amount in dispute is ...
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Hired salary but paid hourly
I got an offer letter and contract from my current employer. The offer letter states "The salary is $115,000 annually, paid monthly."
I am currently working as contract to hire, and I have a ...
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Overpaid in cash at out of state hospital, they wont pay back
In Nevada, I needed some care at a hospital. After treatment, they told me I owed $1600 so I trusted them and paid in cash. Turns out I actually only owed about $1100, so they owe me $500. I live in ...
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