Advocates Call On Lending, Debt Collection, Credit Reporting Companies to Ease Financial Impact on Families
Read More about ICE Has Created a Disaster in Minnesota; The Financial Services Industry Can Help
In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on April 24, 2025, NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu discusses how the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, even though those people had lawfully obtained Social Security numbers. Such falsehoods by a government…
Read More about The Hill: How Trump’s living ‘dead’ immigrants can fight for their rights
Lara v. Sunrun Inc., et al2484-CV-03201 (Suffolk Cty. Super. Ct. Mass.) This case challenges the fraudulent and deceptive practices of solar company Sunrun Inc., on behalf of a low-income, Spanish-speaking, elder consumer. The case alleges that Sunrun’s installed of faulty solar panels on Mr. Lara’s house and charged him thousands of dollars (and will continue…
Hidden and Predatory Remittance Fees Plague Immigrant Families WASHINGTON – A coalition of over 50 consumer, civil rights, academics and privacy organizations submitted a letter this week urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to take meaningful actions to reduce and eliminate junk fees in international remittance transactions – fund transfers frequently used by immigrants…
New NCLC report outlines recommends policy reforms to improve language access for consumers in the financial system
This report covers the ways that financial institutions across the financial services industry serve, or fail to serve, people with limited English proficiency.
Letter from consumer, civil rights and banking organizations supporting the Bureau’s efforts to provide LEP borrowers with access to language assistance and expressing concern regarding one aspect of the proposal. “We believe there are meaningful and operationally feasible approaches that can be pursued to improve language access for borrowers, which we will detail in our…
Read More about Joint Letter to the CFPB on Language Access in Mortgage Servicing
This coalition comment letter expresses support for the Bureau’s efforts to expand language access in the mortgage market, including proposed requirements to provide bilingual Spanish-English essential documents, taglines disclosing the availability of such documents in other top languages, and the provision of oral interpretation for mortgage borrowers. The letter expresses concerns about the proposal to…
NCLC supports FinCEN’s efforts to strengthen and modernize the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) program requirements for financial institutions, but urges FinCEN to do more.
NCLC joined in an amicus brief authored by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law regarding the definition of “prevailing party” in civil rights cases where a preliminary injunction is obtained and the case is subsequently mooted out by a legislative fix. The outcome of this case will impact the ability of civil rights…
The CFPB's proposed rules would ensure that borrowers with limited English proficiency (LEP) have a meaningful opportunity to seek assistance from their mortgage companies in times of distress, helping them stay in their homes.
A new issue brief provides recommendations for states to protect property owners from unnecessary tax foreclosures.
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