NCLC and other national groups recommend that the FCC require an automated opt-out mechanism for all prerecorded calls, ensure that consent is always revocable, and clarify that sellers and creditors are responsible for ensuring that callers making calls on their behalf must stop calling after revocation of consent.
The comment discusses consumer issues facing low-income multifamily tenants and proposes steps FHFA can take to address these issues.
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, along with 20 organizations in the housing, consumer protection, climate and environmental justice, and community investment spaces, submitted comments on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s proposed rule on residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. The comment urges the CFPB to finalize this rule swiftly to protect consumers.…
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NCLC and NHLP submitted comments in strong support of the CFPB’s proposed consumer protection regulations for PACE loans, with recommendations to strengthen the proposal and help it more fully meet its goals.
The National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients), submitted comments in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement of its intent to establish a negotiated rulemaking committee to prepare regulations on federal student loan debt relief, as authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). In these comments, NCLC recommends…
The National Consumer Law Center urges the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to address how forced arbitration clauses in credit monitoring contracts are being used by consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) to compel arbitration of Fair Credit Reporting Act lawsuits. NCLC urges the CFPB to address this issue in its forthcoming FCRA rulemaking by prohibiting the…
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The data broker industry is a $240 billion industry that is growing, opaque, intrusive, and potentially harmful to consumers, yet largely unregulated. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) presents a meaningful avenue to address this regulatory gap for many companies in this industry, if the CFPB issues a rule that defines the scope of the…
NCLC joined reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding incarcerated people’s communications services, implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Act, and rates for interstate inmate calling services. Among other things, the Martha Wright-Reed Act directs the FCC to ensure that companies providing communication services to people who are incarcerated are no longer able to…
NCLC joined reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), submitted on July 12, 2023, regarding the FCC’s implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022. Among other things, the Martha Wright-Reed Act directs the FCC to ensure that companies providing communication services to people who are incarcerated are no longer…