VISA Credit Card Disclosure

On the record for VISA Credit Card Disclosure: a purchase APR of 14.5%–22.25% and no annual fee, filed by Michigan Schools and Government Credit Union. The purchase rate sits at roughly the 51st percentile of the 4,587 agreements indexed here.

What the document actually states

Michigan Schools and Government Credit Union submitted the terms for VISA Credit Card Disclosure to the CFPB's agreement database; this is what they contain. It is issued on the Visa network and the filing runs seven pages.

The disclosure covers a purchase rate, a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate, an annual fee line and a late payment maximum. A penalty rate is not stated.

The purchase APR against the corpus

The purchase APR is quoted as a range of 14.5% to 22.25%. That 7.75-point spread is the whole of what the filing commits to; the method for assigning a rate inside it is not in the document.

The floor of that band sits at about the 30th percentile of filed purchase rates; the ceiling sits at about the 51st. In corpus terms the same card can be cheap or expensive depending on how it is priced.

The agreement labels the purchase rate variable, so the quoted figure reflects the index at the time of filing rather than a locked-in price.

What the rate means in dollars

The purchase rate turns a $1,000 revolving balance into roughly $249 of annual interest.

The median purchase rate across the corpus is 21.99%; the same balance there would cost about $246. The gap — roughly $3 a year on $1,000 — is the price of this particular filing over a typical one.

That maths assumes a static balance and nothing else — no payments, no additional purchases, no fees folded in.

The no-interest path

Purchases carry a 25-day grace period: pay the statement in full inside it and the purchase rate never applies.

The filing sets the minimum interest charge at zero — small balances are not rounded up to a floor.

The downside terms

On the fee side, a late payment can cost up to $25, which is around the 32nd percentile here.

What the card costs before you borrow

There is no annual fee. That is the common case in this corpus — about 75% of the filings that disclose an annual fee at all disclose it as $0 — so it is a baseline expectation rather than a distinguishing feature.

Taking cash against the card means a cash advance APR of 9.75%.

The filing discloses a 9.75% balance transfer rate without an accompanying fee figure.

Foreign transactions attract 1%. On $2,000 of overseas spending that is $20, charged on top of whatever exchange rate applies.

The issuer's other agreements

Michigan Schools and Government Credit Union has 4 agreements indexed on this site. Across that lineup purchase rates span 20.5% to 21.75%; this filing's 22.25% sits above 3 of the comparable ones.

What you cannot learn from the filing

This page cannot tell you penalty pricing, because the filing's disclosure table as read does not contain it.

It is worth being explicit about scope: these filings record terms and pricing. They say nothing about rewards programmes, cardholder benefits, promotional offers or who the issuer will approve, and this review does not speculate about any of it.

Go to the source

This summary stands or falls on the linked PDF — seven pages. Agreements are amended over time, and the filing reflects the terms as submitted rather than as they stand today.

In short

The pricing here is middling by the standards of the index — 22.25% on purchases is near enough to typical. With no annual fee, the cost of the account is entirely a function of whether a balance is carried.