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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supporting a plaintiff’s argument in a case currently on appeal before the Fourth Circuit. The case, Bender v. Elmore & Throop, P.C., focuses on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s one-year statute of…
Good news: If you have private student loans from the now-defunct ITT Technical schools, your loans have been canceled. Bad news: You may owe taxes, as…
The Alameda County Superior Court has partnered with a debt collections firm to provide new payment options for people with outstanding traffic fines, court officials announced…
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. and Ranking Member Greg Walden have unveiled the bipartisan Stopping Bad Robocalls Act. “Americans deserve to be free of…
Financial regulators have spent centuries working on ways to contain banks, making sure their services are fair and they won’t crash the economy. As big technologies…
Julie Margetta Morgan discusses the student debt crisis If you read much about the federal budget, a trillion and a half dollars may not phase you.…
WASHINGTON — Consumer borrowing accelerated in April to the fastest pace in five months as a rebound in credit card use offset slower demand for auto…
Quest, a medical testing company headquartered in Secaucus, N.J., said information regarding 11.9 million patients may have been accessed. The subcontractor, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA),…
Erza Bobo, a 21-year-old student at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, balances classes with serving as a resident assistant and working at…
(Reuters) – Former students at ITT Technical Institute will not have to pay $168 million they still owe on private loans from an affiliated lender to…
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