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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>373866</law_id><section_number>6.2-1525</section_number><catch_line>Wage purchases</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="10" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Other Regulated Providers of Financial Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Consumer Finance Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The payment of any amount in money, credit, goods or things in action, as consideration for any sale or assignment of, or <span class="dictionary">order</span> for, the payment of wages, salary, <span class="dictionary">commission</span>, or other compensation for services, whether earned or to be earned, shall for the purposes of this chapter be deemed a loan of money secured by the sale, assignment or <span class="dictionary">order</span>. The amount by which the compensation so sold, assigned or ordered paid exceeds the amount of consideration actually paid (i) shall be deemed for the purpose of this chapter to be interest upon the loan from the date of the payment to the date the compensation is payable and (ii) shall not, in any case, be more than is sufficient to yield, to the <span class="dictionary">person</span> making the loan, interest on his investment at the annual rate of 10 percent. Such transaction shall in all other respects be governed by and subject to the provisions of this chapter.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-317; 1956, c. 71; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-288; 1968, c. 489; 1974, c. 371; 1995, c. 2; 2001, c. 308; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata><court_decisions></court_decisions></metadata></law>
