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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.

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 Len Wolfson, Acting HUD Director Regarding Mortgagee Letter 2020-22

August 7, 2020

Letter in response to Mortgagee Letter 2020-22, which expanded the relief available to borrowers withCOVID-19 hardships.

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)

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