Interim response to a request for information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, dated July 1, 2019.
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owever, recent trends raise alarming questions about the potential for scams and abuse, especially against older consumers and in communities already devastated by disinvestment, redlining, and unaffordable lending.
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Quotes from the transcripts of August 2019 earnings calls by three publicly-traded payday lenders that offer high-cost installment loans in California at rates of 135% to 199% describing their plans to enter into rent-a-bank schemes to evade the new law.
Letter from the Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) Language Access Task Force to Representatve Green in support of a bill to require the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to require each enterprise to include a preferred language question on the Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA)
The bill would close two major gaps in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) — ensuring that the federal tax code doesn’t continue to tax millions of low-wage workers into, or deeper into, poverty each year and ensuring that the tax code doesn’t exclude millions of lowincome children from the full Child Tax Credit.
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Debt collection affects 71 million U.S. consumers, with 1 in 3 Americans with a credit report having a debt in collections. This number rises to a staggering 45% of Americans living in predominantly non-white zip codes.
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The undersigned organizations, all of which have a strong interest in access to sustainable homeownership and consumer protection, write as a group to underscore the singular importance of ensuring that the GSE Patch does not expire without additional steps being taken to ensure adequate access to mortgage credit.
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Consumer organizations write to support the Accurate Access to Credit Information Act of 2019. The bill will address serious problems in the credit reporting system and empower consumers by providing them with much greater access to and control over their own information.
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Consumers are “credit invisible” if they don’t have any credit history with the Big Three credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) or if their histories are too scant or old (“thin”) to generate a credit score.
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Plaintiff's response to Malcolm and Cisnero's Motion to Dismiss
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Debt-based driver’s license suspensions are a widespread yet counterproductive practice that undercuts economic growth.
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For the reasons discussed herein, Defendants’ motion will be denied.
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