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Payday loans in Indiana

No rollovers are permitted at all — which makes the extended payment plan the only lawful way to get more time. Indiana publishes a model form for it.

Indiana has an extended payment plan, and a model form for it

Indiana’s Department of Financial Institutions publishes a Small Loan Extended Payment Plan Model Form — documented in the CFPB’s national review of state payday extended payment plans.Indiana · Federal researchCFPB market snapshot on payday loan extended payment plans — cites the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions Small Loan Extended Payment Plan Model Form

This is the same category of right as Florida’s 60-day grace period and Washington’s installment plan — rarely advertised, and worth asking for by name before your due date.

No rollovers at all

Indiana does not permit renewals, rollovers or extensions of a small loan. Each loan stands as its own transaction and must be repaid in full by the due date.

That is a stronger position than most states take, and it is the reason the extended payment plan matters here — it is the only lawful way to get more time.

Who regulates what

The DFI’s Consumer Credit Division licenses and examines non-depository small loan lenders, and its remit expressly covers lenders located outside Indiana that advertise and solicit to Indiana consumers.Indiana · RegulatorIndiana DFI Consumer Credit Division — the division regulates entities located in-state as well as those located outside of Indiana that advertise and solicit to Indiana consumers

Complaints go to the DFI where the lender is licensed, and to the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division either way.

Rollovers, renewals, extensions
Not permitted.
Extended payment plan
Available. DFI publishes a model form.
Out-of-state lenders
Covered, where they advertise or solicit to Indiana consumers.
Regulator
Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, Consumer Credit Division
Statute
Indiana Uniform Consumer Credit Code, Ind. Code § 24-4.5

If money is being taken from your account

You can revoke authorisation and instruct your bank to stop the payment, whatever your agreement says.

What Regulation E says about automatic payments →

Debt-collection law in Indiana

A payday loan is a consumer debt. If it goes unpaid, two Indiana rules decide what a lender can do next: how long it has to sue you, and how much of your pay a court can order taken.

Being sued over an old payday loan? A collector can still file, but the time limit is a defence you can raise — and you cannot be jailed for the debt. What can and cannot happen if you don’t pay →

Sources. Indiana Department of Financial Institutions, Consumer Credit Division. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Market Snapshot: Payday Loan Extended Payment Plans (2022). Indiana Uniform Consumer Credit Code.
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