A letter encouraging the Department to consider how the public can have a greater impact on policies so that decisions will promote better economic and environmental outcomes for the greatest number of the Commonwealth’s citizens.
We write today to highlight the ongoing lack of assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic for millions of federal student loan borrowers owing on so called “commercial FFELP” loans and to call for immediate action to remedy issues past and present that have unduly harmed these borrowers.
These comments propose a number of concrete and specific changes this Committee should consider in anticipation of future emergency conditions like COVID-19.
NCLC and Natural Resources Defense Council comments in response to the OCS’s notice of expedited OMB review of data collection for the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) reports.
Debt collection complaints reported nationally and more.
The National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low-income clients and the United Church of Christ, OC, Inc., submit these comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau’s (WCB’s) request for comment on the State of the Lifeline Marketplace Report.
Read More about Comments on the State of the Lifeline Marketplace
Letter to FCC re: Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls EB Docket No. 17-59
Presentation accompanying NARUC EV Working Group Transportation Electrification Access and Equity Webinar
Read More about NARUC EV Working Group Transportation Electrification Access and Equity
The Model Medical Debt Protection Act, now in its third edition, is a tool for advocates who are working to protect consumers who are burdened with medical debt in their states. The model act provides suggested language to improve state health care financial assistance laws, and to strengthen medical debt collection consumer protections.
The Model Family Financial Protection Act protects consumers from the most common abuses in the credit and collections industries, restoring balance to an increasingly lopsided system of justice.
Potentially thousands of extremely low-income elderly and people with disabilities have had their Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits cut off erroneously, bringing many of them to the brink of homelessness. Lax matching standards in LexisNexis Accurint reports used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and a lack of independent investigations by SSA staff lead to improper…
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