Letter Archives

Letter to U.S. House in Support of the Consumer Protection for Medical Debt Collections Act

December 9, 2019

Letter to United States House of Representatives re: H.R. 5330

Letter to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Regarding Implementation of the Low-Income Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program

February 10, 2021

The National Consumer Law Center and Natural Resources Defense Council write to you to respectfully offer recommendations regarding the implementation of the Low-Income Drinking Water and Wastewater Emergency Assistance Program in the recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and to urge you to make these funds available to states and Tribes as soon as possible.

Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education Regarding Joint Federal State Oversight

September 10, 2021

Letter to Beth Grebeldinger re: Docket ID ED-2021-OS-0107

Letter to Treasury, FHFA, HUD, & CFPB Regarding Portal to Provide Information to Consumers on Mortgage and Rental Relief Options Available Under the CARES Act

May 4, 2020

Coalition letter urges federal housing regulators to create a single consumer-facing portal to provide information to consumers on mortgage and rental relief options available under the CARES Act and subsequent legislative and administrative actions in effect during the National Emergency.

Letter to the U.S. House Regarding Network Resiliency

December 4, 2019

Consumer advocates, civil rights advocates, Tribal advocates and advocates for economic development of local communities and rural America deeply concerned over the continually declining state of our nation’s critical communications infrastructure.

Letter to the Senate Regarding Broadband Benefit in the COVID Package

April 14, 2020

The undersigned organizations write to urge Congress to provide a low-income broadband benefit as part of the forthcoming Phase 4 COVID-19 Package. The United States is facing an unprecedented emergency, with nearly all people in the nation—from seniors to children—required to work, learn, and meet daily needs while staying at home. The need for connectivity…

Letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs Regarding Interim Rulemaking Loan Guaranty: Additional Recommendations to Protect Divorced Veterans

March 14, 2019

Letter re: 83 Fed. Reg. 64,459 (Dec. 17, 2018), RIN 2900‐AQ42, Interim Rulemaking Loan Guaranty: Revisions to VA‐Guaranteed or Insured Cash‐out Home Refinance Loans.

Letter to the Big Three Credit Bureaus Urging Steps to Help Credit Histories of Federal Workers Impacted by the Shutdown

January 25, 2019

Consumer, civil rights, and advocacy groups write to urge credit reporting companies to take affirmative steps to help the credit histories of employees of federal contractors and owners/employees of small businesses impacted by the current partial shutdown of the federal government.

Letter to Regulators Regarding Facebook and Cryptocurrency

July 2, 2019

Letter calling on Congress and regulators to impose a moratorium on Facebook’s Libra and related plans until the profound questions raised by the proposal are addressed.

Letter to IRS Regarding Patient Access to Hospital Financial Assistance

May 18, 2020

Letter expressing concern about patient access to hospital financial assistance, pursuant to Section 501(r (4) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 C.F.R. § 1.501(r) and Revenue Ruling 69-545.

Letter to FTC: Military Credit Monitoring Rulemaking

January 7, 2019

The undersigned consumer and advocacy groups submit these comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding free electronic credit monitoring services for active duty military consumers, as required by Section 605A(k) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), 15 U.S.C. 1681c-1(k)

Letter to FHA Regarding Comment to Mortgagee Letter 2021-03 Addressing COVID-Related Deadlines and Issues for HECM Borrowers and Spouses

February 19, 2021

We write in response to the issuance of Mortgagee Letter 2021-03. We appreciate the steps taken in this Mortgagee Letter, as well as the recently announced moratorium extension through June 30, 2021, to expand the FHA foreclosure moratorium in order to ensure the ongoing housing stability of borrowers in FHA’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, and their non-borrowing spouses, in light of the current COVID-19 public health emergency. At the same time, HECM borrowers remain at significant risk of unnecessary foreclosure without additional action. Older people face the greatest risk from the current pandemic, and any housing instability will exacerbate the health and safety risk for those borrowers as well as for the community at large.

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