What is the difference between a credit and debit card?

What is the difference between credit card and debit card?

Answer #1

Hi,

A credit card uses money you don’t actually have in an account. You have an available “credit line”, which is a certain amount you can spend. Then every month, you have to pay your bill of the money you spent.

A debit card, however, uses money you have in an existing checking account. It’s like the credit card form of a check. You can’t use money you don’t have in that account, and if you do, you get charged fees.

I hope this makes sense.

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What is the difference between a credit and debit card?

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