Department of Education Delays Plan to Seize Social Security Benefits to Collect on Defaulted Student Loans
450,000+ student loan borrowers aged 62 and older are at risk of seizure of their Social Security benefits.
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Urge Your Senators to Reject Big, Brutal Reconciliation Bill
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Payments Dive: Fintech groups oppose state BNPL rules
Appearing in Payments Dive on May 28, 2025, Patrick Cooley interview NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of how Fintech trade groups are pressuring New York officials to change buy now, pay later regulations. State-level oversight of the buy now, pay later industry is even more important after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said…
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The American Prospect: Predatory Lenders in the Operating Room
Appearing in The American Prospect on May 28, 2025, Bryce Covert interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu for coverage of how medical credit cards have gone mainstream, preying on sick people at their most vulnerable. With the CFPB dismantled and disempowered, “it’s up to the states now,” Wu said. States likely can’t go after…
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WBUR: Trump targets heating assistance program that helps millions in Northeast
Airing on WBUR on May 28, 2025, Miriam Wasser talks to NCLC Senior Attorney Jenifer Bosco about how LIHEAP, the Low-Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program, popular program that helps low-income families pay for heating and cooling, is on the chopping block. Critics of LIHEAP also argue the program isn’t necessary because most states already…
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Digital Library: 10 Insider Tips to Find Answers to Consumer Law Questions
The NCLC Digital Library is the product of hundreds of consumer law experts’ contributions over the last 45 years. Odds are the answer to your consumer law questions can be found there. But pinpointing quickly what you need is not always easy, and you may not even be sure what the key issues are in…
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Massachusetts Lawmakers, Advocates Host Briefing to Discuss Bill to End Debt-Based Driving Restrictions
Rep. Brandy Fluker-Reid and Sen. Julian Cyr will join advocates and Massachusetts residents directly impacted by debt-based driver’s license suspensions on May 29 for a briefing to discuss the Road to Opportunity Act.
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Advocates, Members of House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Call on VA to Revive VASP Program
Abrupt End of Program to Help Veterans Avoid Foreclosure Leaves Them at Risk of Home Loss
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Boston Public Radio (WGBH): Solar panel company accused of shady business in Massachusetts
Appearing in Boston Public Radio (WGBH 89.7) on April 28, 2025, Jenifer B. McKim and Jade Lozada interview NCLC senior attorney Jenifer Bosco for coverage of how a growing number of Massachusetts residents have faced legal battles with a California-based company named Sunrun Inc. “For many customers, it works out fine. But there’s also been…
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Washington Informer: Trump Administration Curbs ‘Disparate Impact’ Rule in Housing, Lending
Appearing in the Washington Informer on April 25, 2025, Odette Williamson, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center and director of NCLC’s Racial Justice and Equal Opportunity Project is quoted in coverage of the Trump administration’s move to limit the use of “disparate impact” analysis in identifying discrimination, effectively attempting to rewrite settled Supreme…
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The Hill: How Trump’s living ‘dead’ immigrants can fight for their rights
In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on April 24, 2025, NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu discusses how the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, even though those people had lawfully obtained Social Security numbers. Such falsehoods by a government…
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Next Avenue: Student Loan Debt Haunts Many Retirees
Appearing in Next Avenue on May 12, 2025, Chris Farrell quotes NCLC Co-Director of Advocacy Abby Shafroth in part 6 of a 12-part collaborative series between Next Avenue and Marketplace Morning Report covering how students in college rely on loans to pay for much of their higher education bill, and many young adults with student debt…
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