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Equality, fairness, and justice are all concepts that the United States promotes as some of its highest values. In reality, the history of our country and society has not always lived up to those values. In fact, our…
Letitia James.PNG New York Attorney General Letitia James took action Saturday to block debt collectors from raiding emergency stimulus payments authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,…
The COVID stimulus package (CARES Act) has several new actions to offer relief for student loan borrowers. For most federal student loan borrowers, principal and interest…
The Consumer Complaint Database of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a “canary in the coalmine” for problems in the financial marketplace. Launched in 2012,…
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Congress intended to help people in need of financial relief when it authorized billions of dollars of stimulus money to be distributed.…
Local News by: Johan Sheridan Student loan debt. (Cari Dobbins / Pixabay) ALBANY, NY. (NEWS10) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced relief for about 300,000 New…
On March 30, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“the Department”) issued a statement, accessible here, providing guidance to licensed debt collectors and debt…
The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic will require sacrifices but losing the roof over your head should not be one of them. The Department of Housing…
More Americans filed for unemployment last week than in any week in our history. At 3.3 million, that’s nearly five times as much as the record set in 1982 and far…
DEBT COLLECTORS, facing growing demands to freeze the collection of debt across the country amid the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic, are mobilizing their…
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