An “LP subscription charge” on your card or bank statement almost always comes from LinkedIn Premium. LinkedIn’s billing descriptor shows up as “LP” followed by a plan label, and it renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. If the charge looks unfamiliar, the usual culprits are a free trial that rolled into a paid plan, an old account you forgot about, or someone else on the card who signed up.
Which LinkedIn Plan Is Billing You
LinkedIn groups several paid tiers under the “LP Subscriptions” label, including Premium Career, Premium Business, Sales Navigator Professional, Recruiter Lite, and LinkedIn Learning. Each renews on a month-to-month or year-to-year cycle against the credit card, debit card, or third-party payment account on file. A common monthly amount is $29.99, though pricing varies by plan.1Santa Clara University Digital Commons. Easterbrook v. LinkedIn Corporation, Case No. 6:22-cv-01108-MC
Log in to the LinkedIn account tied to the email that received the receipt. The subscription page will show which tier is active and when it next renews. If nothing appears under your account, the charge may be running on a different email address or on an account created by an authorized user of your card.
How to Cancel
The fastest way to stop the recurring bill is to cancel directly through LinkedIn. Sign in, open the subscription or premium settings page, and follow the cancellation flow. Save a screenshot or the confirmation email. You typically keep access through the end of the current billing period, but no new charge should post after that.
If the cancellation flow won’t complete, contact LinkedIn support and write down the date and method of your request. A company that keeps charging after a clear cancellation request is on weak legal ground under both federal law and most state automatic renewal statutes.
How to Get Charges Reversed
If money has already left your account, your options depend on whether the charge hit a credit card or a debit card.
Credit Card Charges
The Fair Credit Billing Act lets credit cardholders dispute billing errors, including unauthorized charges and charges for services you didn’t get as agreed. To preserve your full rights, send a written dispute to your card issuer’s billing inquiry address within 60 days of the date the charge first appeared on your statement. Most issuers also accept disputes by phone or online, but the FTC recommends following up in writing.2Federal Trade Commission. What To Do if You’re Billed for Things You Never Got or You Get Unordered Products
The issuer must acknowledge the dispute within 30 days and resolve it within two billing cycles, up to a maximum of 90 days.2Federal Trade Commission. What To Do if You’re Billed for Things You Never Got or You Get Unordered Products While the investigation runs, you don’t have to pay the disputed amount or related finance charges, but you must keep paying any undisputed portion of the bill.3Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. How Do I Dispute a Charge on My Credit Card Bill Federal law caps your liability for unauthorized credit card charges at $50, and many issuers go further with zero-liability policies.4Cornell Law Institute. 15 U.S. Code § 1643 – Liability of Holder of Credit Card
Debit Card Charges
Debit card protections run on a different clock, and timing matters. Under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, if your card number was used without authorization, you face zero liability as long as you notify your bank within 60 days of receiving the statement.5FDIC. Are There Billing Errors on Your Statement If a physical card was lost or stolen, reporting within two business days caps your liability at $50; waiting longer can expose you to as much as $500 in losses.6Cornell Law Institute. 15 U.S. Code § 1693g – Consumer Liability Your bank can’t require you to contact the merchant first, and it can’t condition an investigation on your filing a police report.7Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Electronic Fund Transfers FAQs
Blocking Future Charges
Once canceled, you can also ask your bank for a stop-payment order that blocks further transactions from the merchant. Banks sometimes charge a fee for this. If a payment still posts after you revoked authorization and told the bank, it’s treated as an error and you can request a refund.8Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. How Do I Stop Automatic Payments From My Bank Account
Your Rights on Recurring Billing
The Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act governs any seller using a “negative option” feature, meaning one where your inaction is treated as consent to keep billing. ROSCA requires the seller to disclose all material terms before taking your billing information, obtain your express informed consent, and give you a simple way to cancel.9U.S. Congress. Public Law 111-345, Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act
The FTC’s “Click-to-Cancel” rule, finalized in November 2024, would have required cancellation to be as easy as sign-up.10Federal Register. Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs It never took effect. On July 8, 2025, the Eighth Circuit vacated the rule in Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, finding the agency skipped a required cost-benefit analysis after an administrative law judge concluded the rule’s economic impact would exceed $100 million annually.11U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Custom Communications, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 24-3137 In early 2026, the FTC issued a new Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to restart the process.12Regulatory Oversight. FTC Revives Negative Option Rulemaking
State automatic renewal laws often add stronger protections. California’s law, amended by AB 2863, requires “express affirmative consent” and verification records kept for at least three years.10Federal Register. Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Programs New York amended its law in May 2025 to require that cancellation be at least as easy as sign-up, that customers get 5 to 30 days’ notice before price increases, and that free trials longer than a month include a reminder before the first paid charge.13Kelley Drye. NY Quietly Amends Automatic Renewal Law Vermont, Colorado, Illinois, and the District of Columbia each impose their own notice or consent requirements.
Where to Complain if a Company Won’t Stop
If LinkedIn or any subscription service refuses to cancel or keeps charging you afterward, escalate beyond your bank. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accepts complaints at consumerfinance.gov/complaint or by phone at (855) 411-CFPB.14CFPB. CFPB Issues Guidance on Negative Option Marketing The FTC accepts fraud reports at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.2Federal Trade Commission. What To Do if You’re Billed for Things You Never Got or You Get Unordered Products
Your state attorney general’s office also takes consumer complaints and can investigate patterns of deceptive billing. California accepts complaints through the attorney general’s online form with supporting documents uploaded.15California Office of the Attorney General. Consumer Complaint Against a Business or Company Virginia offers an online filing process and a voluntary mediation service for disputes that don’t involve a clear legal violation.16Virginia Office of the Attorney General. File a Complaint Colorado’s attorney general collects complaints to spot trends and may bring investigations or lawsuits on the public’s behalf, though the office doesn’t represent individual consumers.17Colorado Attorney General. File a Complaint Most other states run comparable processes through their consumer protection divisions.