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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former CFPB head Richard Cordray will lead the Federal Student Aid office, which oversees student debt. Elizabeth Warren helped create the CFPB and was key in nominating Cordray when she couldn’t…
Rachel Cruze, Personal Finance Expert with Ramsey Solutions, joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss a new survey shedding light on the state of personal…
Richard Cordray, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will oversee the federal government’s $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio, the Department of Education announced…
Half of Stacy Estes’ pay disappears every month before it hits his bank account. Each check is about $500 lighter than it should be, intercepted in…
Something doesn’t add up. Consumer credit has held up remarkably well during the pandemic, and household debt has shrunk. Even among consumers who have lost jobs…
Several members of ACA International have been appointed to the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (DFPI) new debt collection advisory committee. The seven-member committee…
Consumer groups are applauding a bill that is meant to keep debt collectors from garnishing the stimulus payments and other direct aid approved by the federal…
Consumer advocates are calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to provide a uniform, nationwide standard for what debtors must prove to eliminate student loan debt in…
Katie Adams – Thursday, April 29th, 2021 Two and a half million more people than usual had their medical debt enter collections since the pandemic began,…
In 2018, Betsy DeVos, then U.S. education secretary, called JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon for help. Repayments on federal student loans had come…
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