{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/in-the-news/more-than-132000-rushcard-users-were-locked-out-of-accounts-for-days", "More than 132,000 RushCard users were locked out of accounts for days", "2015-12-07", "2015", "2015-12", "Democrat", "House", "NJ", "Robert Menendez", "M000639", "www.menendez.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "More than 132,000 RushCard users were locked out of accounts for days \n\t\t\t\n More than 132,000 RushCard users were locked out of accounts for days \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\nMonday, December 7, 2015\n\t\n  \n    By:\n    Jonnelle Marte\n\n  The RushCard fiasco that leftconsumerswithout access to theirprepaid cardaccountsfor days affected more than 132,000 consumers, or about 30 percent of all RushCardcustomers, the company confirmed Monday.\r\nAll 442,400 customers were temporarily blocked from accounts during a planned outage during Columbus Day weekendwhen RushCard, a prepaid card company co-founded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons,transitioned to a new payment processor.\r\nBut 132,593cardholders continued to see a disruption of some kind that blocked some users from accessing their accounts for days, including delays with money transfers and the erroneous deactivation of some cards, saidRick Savard, thechief executive ofRushCards parent companyUniRushin a letter to lawmakers last week.\r\nThe total numberof RushCard customers, and atally of how many people were affected,havent previously been disclosed because RushCardis a privately held company. But the figures were included in a writtenresponse to senatorsSherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who asked UniRushto provide more information about what it was doing to help consumers who had been locked out of their accountsby the technical issues.Savard said the consumers affected by the outages included 5,536 people in Ohio and 4,834 in New Jersey.\r\n...Continue reading article here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/in-the-news/more-than-132000-rushcard-users-were-locked-out-of-accounts-for-days"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1197330206632614, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}