I've had a few times in my life when the stars didn't align right and I had more money going out of my checking account than what was going in; thus, I got hit with overdraft fees and did it ever may matters worse! So what if your local bank decided to do away with the overdraft fees?
Because his late father was an Air Force veteran, 22-year-old Allen Smith gets a check from the VA every month. The $650 helps pay his college expenses but, like many students, he could always use some more.
He got a lot more earlier this month, when he opened his VA check and was staring right at the staggering sum of $690 million.