Some Fees Rise For Overdrafts.

Even as we all pay greater attention to bank overdraft policies, some types of overdraft fees actually have increased, according to a new analysis from an arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew's Safe Checking in the Electronic Age project recently updated a study it published last year, in which it analyzed disclosures and fees for checking accounts at the nation's largest banks. The new report added two new banks and added an analysis of 12 big credit unions (we'll look at how credit unions fared in a separate post). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]