Verified response of Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) to Illinois Utilities’ responses to the Illinois Commerce Commission’s Emergency Interim Order of March 18, 2020.
Testimony expressing concern that the many bad actors observed in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs have preyed upon low-income consumers, older adults, and homeowners of color, including through deceptive contractor practices and targeting communities of color.
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Consumer organizations call upon the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to rescind a portion of its April 1, 2020 guidance entitled “Statement on Supervisory and Enforcement Practices Regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Regulation V in Light of the CARES Act.” We urge you to rescind that portion of the April 1 guidance permitting consumer…
The undersigned 143 organizations urge CFPB to take aggressive actions to protect the credit records of renters who have struggled financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we urge you to prohibit debt collectors from reporting rent arrears debt to the nationwide consumer reporting agencies (CRAs), i.e., Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, if the rent…
Consumer organizations write this letter to strongly support the above-referenced request for an Investigation into the Effect of the Individual Residential Supply Market on Low Income RatepayerAssistance Programs, which was submitted to the Department by the Attorney General onDecember 17, 2019. We urge the Department to open the requested investigation promptly andto devote adequate resources…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are changing the landscape of decision making at financial institutions and playing an increasingly larger role in determining the types of products and services a customer is offered or denied. The growing use of AI and ML has important consumer protection and fair lending implications for the entire…
The predatory lending practices of EasyPay Finance and Utah-based, FDIC-supervised Transportation Alliance Bank (TAB Bank) are hurting military servicemembers, veterans, and their families
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