Expenses for life-saving or medically necessary care are often unexpected, and can throw a family into an immediate financial crisis. This crisis is compounded when families cannot pay for these surprise expenses and the debt is reported to credit bureaus. The blemishes on a credit report (which employers and landlords as well as creditors may…
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Letter highlighting important additional actions that the CFPB should take to protect and assist consumers with medical debts in collection.
This testimony’s focus is on the discharge of student loans in bankruptcy
The National Consumer Law Center,1 on behalf of its low-income clients, submits these comments to the proposed amendments to Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1 and new Official Forms.
Over the past several decades, bankruptcy gave tens of millions of Americans a fresh start free from crushing debt. Although criminal justice debt weighs disproportionately upon those with the least ability to pay, it has generally been excluded from bankruptcy’s fresh start. This exclusion has been grounded on the belief that allowing discharge of monetary…
Effective April 1, 2019, a new Prepaid Accounts Rule issued by the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau (CFPB) gives certain government benefit accounts new protections. Therule amends and enhances the protection that many government benefit accounts already haveunder the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and Regulation E.
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Forced arbitration clauses take away constitutional rights to a day in court when companies break the law. Instead of a judge, a private arbitrator, often chosen and paid by the company, decides cases in a secretive proceeding with no appeal. Below, we break down how each state is impacted by this harmful practice. Alabama Alaska…
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On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its anxiously awaited decision in TransUnion L.L.C. v. Ramirez. The 5-4 decision follows up on the Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, which, like Ramirez, also addressed whether the injury a consumer suffered due to an inaccurate credit report met the concreteness requirement for Article…
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