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    Consumer Confidential: Banks say cardholders can get help during the pandemic. But it may not be easy

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Sep 15, 2020 4 minutes

    Like many people in these strange and unwelcome times, Brienna Prowler has been making ends meet by running up hefty balances on her credit cards.

    Specifically, she's carrying a combined $15,000 in family medical bills on her Chase and Barclays cards - bills she can't pay down since losing her gig as a bartender because of the pandemic.

    Prowler, 36, says she's never missed a payment. She has a good credit score (over 700). However, both her cards have annual interest rates topping 23%.

    "I asked Chase and Barclays if they would lower my rate, at least for a while,"

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