and handing out leaflets'

  • The Cheque Centre 'sends staff to stand outside jobcentres and give leaflets'
  • Claim was made by a whistleblower after MoS investigation last week
  • Source said managers encouraged the behaviour to 'get figures up'


A payday loan company exposed by The Mail on Sunday last week for targeting hard-up families and locking them into a spiral of debt is also preying on unemployed people. The Cheque Centre, one of Britain’s biggest payday lenders, sends staff to stand outside job centres and tells them to hand out leaflets offering loans with sky-high interest rates. The latest allegations were made by a Cheque Centre whistleblower who contacted this newspaper after our investigation last week. The female employee, who did not want to be named, said: ‘The logic is that if people are at a job centre, they are in receipt of benefit and therefore able to pay back the loan. ‘Our area manager told us that if we wanted to get our figures up, we needed to stand outside the local job centre and hand out leaflets with the promise of a loan of up to £1,000..........Read more here