Disclosed rates and fees
Every figure below was read from this issuer's filed agreement. Anything the filing does not state is left out of this table rather than shown as zero.
| Purchase APR | 15.9% |
|---|---|
| Balance transfer APR | 15.9% |
| Cash advance APR | 15.9% |
| Late payment fee | up to $25 |
| Foreign transaction fee | 1% |
| Balance transfer fee | None |
| Grace period | 25 days |
| Network | Mastercard |
Analysis
The Secured App & Solicitation Disclosure filing from Erie Federal Credit Union sets out a 15.9% purchase APR. That purchase rate ranks near the 17th percentile across this corpus of 4,587 filings.
What the agreement puts on the record
This page covers the agreement Erie Federal Credit Union filed for Secured App & Solicitation Disclosure. It is issued on the Mastercard network and the filing runs two pages.
Terms captured from the document include a purchase rate, a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate, a late payment maximum and a foreign transaction fee. No figure appears for a penalty rate and an annual fee line.
What "secured" changes
Secured cards work against a deposit held by the issuer. The rate and fee figures summarised here say nothing about the size of that deposit or the terms attached to it, both of which are matters for the agreement text itself.
Securing the line has not placed this agreement at the bottom of the market — 15.9% ranks near the 17th percentile across every filing indexed here.
How the purchase rate compares
Ranked against the corpus, this purchase APR — 15.9% — sits at approximately the 17th percentile and sits well down in the cheaper fifth of the set.
Translating the rate into money
Put $1,500 on the card and never reduce it, and twelve months of interest at the disclosed purchase rate comes to approximately $258.
The corpus median purchase rate is 21.99%, which on the same $1,500 would cost about $369 a year. This filing saves roughly $110 annually against that benchmark.
Broken down to a single thirty-day cycle, the same balance accrues roughly $19.73.
That maths assumes a static balance and nothing else — no payments, no additional purchases, no fees folded in.
Fees, and what triggers them
Cash advances carry a cash advance APR of 15.9%. The grace period described below generally does not extend to cash advances, so interest on them usually begins immediately.
The filing discloses a 15.9% balance transfer rate without an accompanying fee figure.
Spending abroad costs an extra 1% — about $20 on $2,000 of purchases, independent of interest.
Default pricing
Late payments are capped at $25 under this filing, about the 32nd percentile of late fee maximums in the corpus.
Grace period and minimum charge
Purchases carry a 25-day grace period: pay the statement in full inside it and the purchase rate never applies. That matches the 25-day median across the corpus almost exactly.
What you cannot learn from the filing
Absent from the captured terms: an annual fee and penalty pricing. The original document is the place to look for any of these.
What this analysis can address is bounded by the filing: rates, fees and the terms around them. Everything a card issuer might advertise — rewards, benefits, bonuses, who qualifies — falls outside the document and outside this review.
Against the rest of Erie Federal Credit Union's filings
Erie Federal Credit Union has 7 agreements indexed on this site. Across that lineup purchase rates span 15.9% to 17.9%; this filing's 15.9% sits above 0 of the comparable ones.
The document itself
This summary stands or falls on the linked PDF — two pages. Agreements are amended over time, and the filing reflects the terms as submitted rather than as they stand today.
In short
15.9% places this filing at the inexpensive end of the set, which is the headline here.
The source document
This page is a reading of one document: the cardholder agreement Erie Federal Credit Union filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Where the two disagree, the filing is correct and this page is wrong.
Applications are handled by Erie Federal Credit Union, not by us. We do not take applications and cannot say whether you would be approved.
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NEW Secured App & Solicitation Disclosure
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
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- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
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Secured App & Solicitation Disclosure
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 15.9%
- Foreign tx fee
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Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.9%–17.9%
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- 2.99%
- Foreign tx fee
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NEW App & Solicitation Disclosure
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 8.9%–17.9%
- Intro APR
- 2.99%
- Foreign tx fee
- 1%
Where this card sits
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