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The Protecting Wages of Essential Workers Act of 2022 (Protecting Wages Act), introduced by Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC), will keep more money in the pockets of working people struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, while still allowing the collection industry to collect debts.
Read More about H.R.9224: Protecting Wages of Essential Workers Act of 2022
In 2021, the 15 most common private litigants in collection lawsuits in 16 California counties were all credit card issuers and debt buyers. Collectively, these 15 companies were engaged in 76.2% of all collection lawsuits filed in those counties.
In support of An Act Relative to Fairness in Debt Collection (S663/H1168) or the Debt Collection Fairness Act (DCFA) As of December 2020, 19% of Bay Staters had a debt in collection — rising to 35% in communities of color. The economic strain of the pandemic will inevitably result in a tsunami of increased debt…
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NCLC survey of Legal Aid and non-profit attorneys reveals credit reporting and debt collection consequences of alleged rental debt.
This issue brief, published in July of 2019 and updated in June of 2021, considers what court-sponsored online dispute resolution (ODR) means for consumers who are sued in debt collection lawsuits by creditors collecting consumer debts and ways that courts may guard against potential problems. Court-sponsored ODR offers a way to resolve court cases online…
Congress has enacted extraordinary relief for families hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. That relief includes two rounds of Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) and – in the new package about to be passed – a third round of EIP payments and enhanced Child Tax Credits (CTC) for low-income families, with half of the CTC payments…