CREDIT CARD ABUSE [ back to What's New ]
The Wall Street Journal reports that competition among credit card vendors has led some unscrupulous companies to target persons with diminished mental capacity, including persons with TBI. Impulsive spending by a TBI survivor with a credit card can, and does, lead to insolvency and bankruptcy. Hence the parents, spouses and guardians of persons with TBI are advised to exercise vigilance in screening credit card applications in the mail, preventing or limiting use of credit cards, monitoring credit card charge statements and the like.