{
  "id": 4918421,
  "title": "‘Absurd’: CBA slugged 13 years of fees for inactive card",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/absurd-cba-slugged-13-years-of-fees-for-inactive-card-4918421",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-01T19:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Age",
    "slug": "the-age",
    "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/absurd-cba-slugged-13-years-of-fees-for-inactive-card-20260831-p60t2m.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Staff were unable to identify the bank as the merchant responsible for charging years of fees, including those for a card that had been returned to sender and destroyed.",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "‘Absurd’: CBA slugged 13 years of fees for inactive card",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/absurd-cba-slugged-13-years-of-fees-for-inactive-card",
        "published": "2026-09-01T19:00:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}