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Letter to U.S. Treasury and Federal Banking and Housing Regulators Regarding Servicer Liquidity Facility

April 17, 2020

Civil Rights, Consumer, and Real Estate Organizations' Letter to U.S. Treasury and Federal Banking and Housing Regulators Urging Quick Deployment of Liquidity Facilities to Help Mortgage Servicers Maintain Stability During the COVID-19 Crisis.

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 OCC Regarding Figure Bank, National Association: Charter Application

December 7, 2020

Comment from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the National Consumer Law Center® and the Center for Responsible Lending opposing the application from Figure Technologies for a national bank charter and to establish Figure Bank.

Letter to the FCC—Protect Incarcerated People

April 7, 2020

During this unprecedented crisis, the organizations below write on behalf of our country’s most vulnerable people in terms of health and economic stability: incarcerated people and their families and loved ones. During the COVID-19 pandemic incarcerated and detained individuals are being deprived of family visits across the country in conditions that make them uniquely at risk for contracting COVID-19.

Letter to the FCC Regarding Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, CG Docket No. 02-278, Petition of Assurance IQ, LLC

August 12, 2020

This ex parte Notice relates to a meeting held on August 11 between representatives from various consumer groups with staff of the Bureau on Consumer and Governmental Affairs, along with Tim Sostrin, an attorney representing a consumer in a case pending against Assurance IQ, LLC.

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.

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