Press Release: Fed’s Credit Card Rules: Good First Step, May 2, 2008
Press Release: Regulators’ Overdraft Proposal Falls Short:
Fails to Protect Consumers from Unwanted Credit, May 2, 2008
Press Release: IRS Takes One Step Forward on RALs, But Takes One Big Step Back On Privacy, January 7, 2008
Press Release: High-Fee, Low-Credit Predatory Credit Cards Prey Upon the Poor, November 1, 2007
Press Release: Debt Collection Horror Stories Available To Back Up Federal Trade Commission October 10-11 Workshop
Press Release: Consumer Alert: Less Than Two Weeks To Tell The Federal Reserve What You Think About Credit Card Rules, October 1, 2007
Press Release: Military Lending Act to take effect October 1
Press Release: NCLC expressing disappointment with final DOD regulations, September 4, 2007
Press Release: New Burdens but Few Benefits - An Examination of the Bankruptcy Counseling and Education Requirements in Massachusetts Report, June 12, 2007
Press Release: Down, But Not Gone: Quick Tax Refund Loans Continue to Gouge Taxpayers and Military, and the NCLC/CFA 2007 Refund Anticipation Loan Report, February 5, 2007
2006
Press Release: Pay Stub and Holiday RALs: Faster, Costlier, Riskier in the Race to the Bottom, November 28, 2006
Press Release: The Older Consumers With Credit Card Debt Have Few Places to Turn for Help, September 6, 2006
Press Release of the Joint Statement of community, civil rights and consumer organizations for additional aid to help homeowners in Gulf Coast rebuild, February 23, 2006
Press Release: Another Year of Losses: High-Priced Refund Anticipation Loans Continue to Take a Chunk Out of Americans’ Tax Refunds, February 2, 2006
2005
Press Release of the Unhealthy Pursuits: How the Sick and Vulnerable are Harmed by Abusive Medical Debt Collection Tactics Report PDF (381KB), December 19, 2005
Press Release: Credit Reporting Agencies Reject an Important Step to Help Hurricane Survivors: Many Katrina Victims Will Face Additional Economic Difficulties as Credit Scores Drop Due to Disaster, October 6, 2005 PDF (60KB)
Press Release (38KB) of the Debt Indicator Report (177KB) - Corporate Welfare for the RAL Industry, July 5, 2005
Press Release of NCLC's Report: Serious Questions Need Answering to Back Up Job-Placement and Graduation Claims of Proprietary Schools, June 29, 2005 PDF (238KB)
Press Release of NCLC’s “Dreams Foreclosed” Report Details Rampant, Nationwide Theft of Americans’ Homes and Equity, May 31, 2005 PDF (35KB)
Press Release: Federal Reserve Bank Regulation Fails to Protect Consumers From Predatory “Overdraft Bounce Loan” Products May 24, 2005 PDF (136KB)
Press Release: New Trap Door for Consumers: Credit Card Issuers Use Rubber-Stamp Arbitration to Rush Debts Into Default Judgments, February 2005, PDF (1.1MB)
Sample Letter to Federal Reserve Board on Credit Card Practices, January 2005
Consumer Collaboration:
A Six-Point Consumer Agenda To Close Growing Gaps In Marketplace Protections
2004
Press Release: NCLC Calls on Media to Expose Debt Collection Industry's Widespread Illegal Practice
Press Release: of NCLC's Update on Credit Counseling Agencies’ Compliance with State Licensing Laws Lax, and State Enforcement of Those Laws Weak, November 18, 2004 PDF (37KB)
Press Release: NCLC, Former Georgia Governor Barnes
Lead Effort to Shut Down Nationwide Scheme
Illegally Targeting Veterans’ Benefits Checks, October 5, 2004 PDF (30KB)
2003
Press Release: Applauding Intuit's Dumping of RALs from TurboTax, December 16, 2003
