FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 25, 2019 National Consumer Law Center Attorney Chi Chi Wu to Testify on February 26 at U.S. House Hearing: Holding Credit Bureaus Accountable and Repairing a Broken System Download the report at: https://bit.ly/ajustre Wu’s testimony will be available to download on or before Feb. 26 at 8am ET at: http://bit.ly/fcr-score Boston…
National Consumer Law Center’s 50-State Review of Laws Used to Pursue Criminal Charges against Rent to Own Customers For Immediate Release: February 21, 2019 Download the full report, including an analysis of rental theft laws of 50 states and Washington, D.C., and complete list of policy recommendations at https://bit.ly/rto-racket Boston – Across the nation, the $8.5…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 7, 2019 National Consumer Law Center Report Analyzes Nearly 700,000 Consumer Complaints from 2017 for 50 States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico Download the full report and access debt collection fact sheets (national, state, and District of Columbia) a map of the number of complaints per capita in each state,…
Click here for the updated (Nov. 2021) version of the Ounce of Prevention report. The National Consumer Law Center Provides a Blueprint for States to Adopt Boston – With more than 27 million Americans lacking health insurance and almost 50% of nonelderly adults with inadequate insurance that includes high deductibles and significant out-of-pocket costs, an…
BOSTON – Debt companies pursuing consumers with a small army of collectors have swamped small claims courts with lawsuits and left a trail of abuses that, in 2009, led consumers to file more than 120,000 complaints with federal regulators. “The Debt Machine: How the Collection Industry Hounds Consumers and Overwhelms Courts,” released today by the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Many states are failing to provide adequate protections for consumers against extremely expensive credit according to a new report by the National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Federation of America, and Consumers Union. The Scorecard updates a 2008 report and grades states on how well they protect consumers from excessive interest charges on…
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