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[email protected] Cheques www.lco-cdo.org FINAL REPORT November 2008 Available online at www.lco-cdo.org Disponible en français ISBN: 978-0-9809738-6-0 Fees for Cashing Government Cheques FINAL REPORT November 2008 Law Commission of Ontario Computer Methods Building Suite 201, 4850 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel: (416) 650-8406 Fax: (416) 650-8418 General E-mail:
[email protected] www.lco-cdo.org Fees for Cashing Government Cheques e are pleased to release this Final Report in our study on charging fees for cashing government cheques. Madam Justice Karen Weiler proposed this project. The Law WCommission of Ontario’s Board of Governors approved it for study on November 19, 2007 and approved this Final Report on October 6, 2008. A disproportionate number of low income recipients of government cheques cash their cheques at businesses in the alternate financial sector. The LCO’s recommendations in this project are intended to provide an environment in which those who pay fees to cash their government cheques do so as a matter of choice, rather than because of their inability to establish bank accounts, their geographic location or other factors outside their control. Accordingly, the recommendations are directed at government, as well as private actors in this area.