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CFPB’s Debt Collection Rule Misses Critical Opportunities to Protect Consumers

December 18, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2020 Nearly One-Third of U.S. Adults with a Credit Report Have Debt in Collection WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low income clients, along with Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Consumer Federation of America, and the National Association of Consumer Advocates, expressed disappointment…

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Letter in Support of Bill Requiring the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to Require Preferred Language Question on The Uniform Residential Loan Application

October 22, 2019

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)

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Consumer and Civil Rights Advocates Condemn Credit Bureaus for Suing Over Language Access Law

October 21, 2019

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) sued the State of New Jersey over its new law requiring credit reports to be provided in Spanish and 10 other languages, claiming the law is preempted and a violation of the First Amendment. CDIA is a trade association for the credit reporting industry, the…

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Statement Regarding Credit Report/Score Requirement in DHS Public Charge Regulation

August 12, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12. 2019 National Consumer Law Center contact: Chi Chi Wu ([email protected]) or (617) 542-8010 Statement Regarding Credit Report/Score Requirement in DHS Public Charge Regulation Boston – Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a regulation that greatly expands what will be considered in determining whether an immigrant is considered a…

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FHFA Backtracks on Critical Language Access Question on Mortgage Application

August 9, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 9, 2019 Washington, D.C.- Advocates at the National Consumer Law Center decried the decision announced yesterday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to remove a question about the mortgage applicant’s language preference from the Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA), the form used widely across the mortgage market. FHFA had announced…

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CFPB’s Debt Collection Rule Misses Critical Opportunities to Protect Consumers

Letter in Support of Bill Requiring the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to Require Preferred Language Question on The Uniform Residential Loan Application

Consumer and Civil Rights Advocates Condemn Credit Bureaus for Suing Over Language Access Law

Statement Regarding Credit Report/Score Requirement in DHS Public Charge Regulation

FHFA Backtracks on Critical Language Access Question on Mortgage Application

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