July 2019 - Page 2 of 2 - National Consumer Law Center

National Consumer Law Center Attorney Chi Chi Wu to Testify on July 25 before U.S. House on Use of Alternative Credit Data to Expand Access to Credit

Jan Kruse2019-07-24T13:01:11-05:00July 24, 2019|Categories: Media Center, Uncategorized|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 24, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Full testimony of NCLC attorney Wu will be available before or by 10 a.m. EDT on July 25, 2019: https://bit.ly/alt-credit-scoring Download new NCLC issue brief: “Credit Invisibility and Alternative Data: Promises and Perils” Boston - On Thursday, July 25, at [...]

Issue Brief: Credit Invisibility and Alternative Data

Anna Kowanko2019-07-24T09:38:26-05:00July 23, 2019|Categories: Issues|

Comments: Same-Day ACH Payments

Anna Kowanko2019-07-24T09:34:53-05:00July 23, 2019|Categories: Issues|

Statement Regarding Support of Bills to Relieve Student Loan Debt

Jan Kruse2019-07-23T09:48:56-05:00July 23, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contacts: Persis Yu (pyu@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Boston – Today marks the introduction of the second of two bills designed to help Americans burdened with student loan debt. Today, U.S. Senator Warren and Representative Clyburn introduced the Student Loan Debt Relief [...]

Statement Regarding Settlement with Equifax over its 2017 Data Breach

Jan Kruse2019-07-22T11:34:59-05:00July 22, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 22. 2019 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Boston - Today, class action attorneys, federal regulators (Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and state Attorneys General reached a settlement with Equifax regarding its data breach that affected 147 million consumers. The final settlement [...]

Federal Government Strips Legal Rights of Older Consumers in Nursing Homes

Jan Kruse2019-07-17T14:21:06-05:00July 17, 2019|Categories: Media Center, Uncategorized|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 17, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contact: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Washington – Late yesterday, the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final nursing home arbitration rule, allowing nursing homes to force residents into arbitration and depriving them of access to the courts in case of a [...]

Bipartisan House Bill Moves Forward in the Fight to Stop Unwanted Robocalls

Jan Kruse2019-07-17T12:17:13-05:00July 17, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 17, 2019 CONTACTS: National Consumer Law Center: Jan Kruse, jkruse@nclc.org or (617) 542-8010 Consumer Reports: David Butler, dbutler@consumer.org or (202) 462-6262 Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed unanimously (48-0) the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (HR 3375). The bipartisan bill was introduced in June by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and [...]

Statement Regarding CFPB Settlement with Nation’s Largest Debt Relief Company

Jan Kruse2019-07-09T13:51:31-05:00July 9, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contacts: Andrew Pizor (apizor@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) Washington, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the settlement of a lawsuit it had brought against Freedom Debt Relief, the nation’s largest debt settlement company. According to the CFPB, the company agreed to [...]

Consumer, Civil Rights Advocates to CFPB: Don’t Water Down Overdraft Fee “Opt In” Rule

Jan Kruse2019-07-02T10:07:25-05:00July 2, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2, 2019 National Consumer Law Center: Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org) or (617) 542-8010 Center for Responsible Lending: Ricardo Quinto (ricardo.quinto@responsiblelending.org) “More, not less, comprehensive reform of unfair and abusive overdraft fee practices is badly needed.” “Overdraft fees are unfair, deceptive, harmful, and outrageously high—and they hit consumers of color the hardest” WASHINGTON, [...]

Will Student Loan Borrowers in Income-Driven Repayment Get the Loan Forgiveness They’ve Been Promised?

Jan Kruse2019-09-19T14:46:50-05:00July 1, 2019|Categories: Media Center|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 1, 2019 National Consumer Law Center contacts: Persis Yu (pyu@nclc.org) or Jan Kruse (jkruse@nclc.org); (617) 542-8010 National Consumer Law Center Files FOIA to Find out on 25th Anniversary of Borrowers Participating in Income-Driven Repayment Plans Download NCLC’s FOIA request at: http://bit.ly/foia-ann Boston — On July 1, 1994, the U.S. Education Department [...]