FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 14, 2019 || Contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 BOSTON – The following statement is by Persis Yu, director of the National Consumer Law Center’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project in response to the new report by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, Federal Student Aid: Additional [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 2019 Contact: Lauren Saunders (lsaunders@nclc.org) Statement on CFPB Sandbox Proposal A group of 80 consumer, civil rights, legal services, labor, environmental, and community groups today expressed their strong opposition to the proposed changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s no-action letter policy and its proposed product sandbox. A copy of [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 11, 2019 Contact: Persis Yu (pyu@nclc.org), (617) 542-8010 BOSTON - Last week, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Lamar Alexander proposed a program that would require student loan borrowers to repay their loans through mandatory automatic deductions from their paychecks. The National Consumer Law Center released a [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2019 National Consumer Law Center Contacts: April Kuehnhoff (akuehnhoff@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org), (617) 542-8010 National Consumer Law Center Report Analyzes Nearly 700,000 Consumer Complaints from 2017 for 50 States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico Download the full report and access debt collection fact sheets (national, state, and District [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 6, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contacts: Lauren Saunders (lsaunders@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) New Rule Proposal, If Finalized, Will Likely Face a Legal Challenge WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under the leadership of new director Kathy Kraninger has proposed to largely repeal a common-sense rule [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contacts: Margot Saunders (msaunders@nclc.org); Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org), (617) 542-8010 The “Stopping Bad Robocalls Act” would reinforce decades-old consumer protections from robocalls WASHINGTON - Consumer advocates at the National Consumer Law Center applaud Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ-6) for reintroducing the “Stopping Bad Robocalls Act,” a bill [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2019 Contacts: National Consumer Law Center: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP: Dean M. Harvey (415) 956-1000 or dharvey@lchb.com Suit filed on behalf of thousands of Californians alleges conspiracy in the bail industry to fix prices and inflate bail bond premiums, making it more [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2019 National Consumer Law Center Contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 BOSTON ― As the potentially chaotic tax filing season officially begins today after a protracted government shutdown, advocates from the National Consumer Law Center issued their annual consumer advisory on taxpayer consumer protection issues. These include: • Refund [...]

For Immediate Release: JANUARY 23, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Washington, D.C. -  U.S. Senators Shaheen (D-NH), Collins (R-ME), Coons (D-DE), and Reed (D-RI) introduced bipartisan legislation that would prevent undue delay in distributing grants through the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and the State Energy Program (SEP), providing [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23, 2019 CONTACTS: National Consumer Law Center: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org), (617) 542-8010 Center for Responsible Lending: Ricardo Quinto (ricardo.quinto@responsiblelending.org) Washington, D.C. – In comments submitted late yesterday, national civil rights and consumer nonprofits urged the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) not to sanction high-cost loans made by banks directly or through [...]