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  Users Of Walmart’s Prepaid MoneyCard Say They Can’t Access Funds
  By Ashlee Kieler 5.19.16
  Prepaid credit cards can serve as a lifeline for millions of unbanked Americans in need of an alternative to traditional banking, but they’re only helpful when users can actually get access to their funds. To that end, thousands of consumers who use Walmart-branded prepaid debit cards say they’ve been stranded without their funds for three days. [More]
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  Walmart Adding 500 More MoneyCenters Nationwide In 2010
  By Chris Morran 3.16.10
  While banks have spent the last two years consolidating and closing, it looks like people have been turning elsewhere for their financial services. Walmart — you might have heard of them — just opened up their 1,000th in-store MoneyCenter and have announced they’re rolling them out to 500 more locations before the end of 2010. [More]
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