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Holding Government Contractors Accountable for Wrongdoing
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Back from the Dead: Zombie Second Mortgages
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Strengthening Appraisal Oversight: Progress at the Appraisal Subcommittee
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Holding Credit Reporting Companies Accountable for Junk Data
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What We’re Watching: Language Access in Consumer Finance
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Strengthening State-Level Consumer Protections
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New protections for payday and installment loans take effect March 30
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LFG (Looking for gamers): CFPB wants to hear about your video game loot
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Protecting you from unlawful debt collection at work
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New tactics from companies trying to charge illegal junk fees
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CreditRepair.com and Lexington Law refund checks: What you need to know
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CFPB ombudsman’s office 2024 annual report
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CFPB to distribute over $191 million to consumers harmed by Tempoe
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Medical Debt and Non-Profit Hospital Billing Practices
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CFPB launches public comment process for open banking standard setter recognition
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Debt collectors that take advantage of surviving spouses and their vulnerabilities
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High Interest Rates Set to Increase the Cost of Student Loans in 2024
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Promoting competition in payments
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Preserving free access to money in your account
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What we're learning: Medical debt's impact on Alaska Native communities
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What Buy Now, Pay Later lenders are doing to be upfront with borrowers
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Recover financially from floods, and take steps for the rest of the storm season
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Credit card delinquencies are higher than in 2019 because lenders took on more risk
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Junk fees that harm competition
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What we're hearing: financial challenges along the Gulf Coast
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CFPB to distribute over $8 million to consumers harmed by All American Check Cashing, Inc.
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CFPB to distribute more than $53 million to consumers harmed by BrightSpeed Solutions
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How to recover financially after Hurricane Beryl
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The CFPB is working to reinforce the foundation of a fair, nondiscriminatory and competitive mortgage market
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The CFPB's 2023 fair lending annual report to Congress
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CFPB approves rule to ensure accuracy and accountability in the use of AI and algorithms in home appraisals
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Ensuring consumers aren’t pushed into medical payment products
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Keeping junk fees away from workers’ unemployment benefits
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New protections for payday and installment loans slated to take effect next year
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Recovering financially from heavy storms, and preparing for storm season
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The CFPB is protecting the military community and providing relief
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Public Interest Tech Jobs: Regulate tech and AI
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The CFPB will distribute more than $384 million to consumers deceived by Think Finance, LLC
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CFPB to distribute nearly $40 million to consumers misled by fintech company LendUp Loans
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More competition and less complexity: How the CFPB is working to lower prices in the credit card market
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Ensuring servicemembers can protect themselves from unlawful financial practices
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Consumer reporting companies have an obligation to correct errors
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State UDAAP Developments
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ASC hearing addresses appraisal bias, highlights deficiencies with The Appraisal Foundation
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Junk fees are driving up housing costs. The CFPB wants to hear from you.
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Unlawful fees in the mortgage market
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Credit card interest rate margins at all-time high
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CFPB to distribute more than $10.9 million to consumers harmed by student loan debt-relief business
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The CFPB’s enforcement work in 2023 and what lies ahead
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Beware of new CFPB imposter scams
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Holding debt collectors responsible for false statements
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CFPB to distribute nearly $6 million to consumers harmed by predatory loans to veterans
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Office of Research blog: A look at cash-out refinance mortgages and their borrowers between 2013 to 2023
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State regulatory developments on “income-based advances”
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CFPB ombudsman’s office 2023 annual report
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Piloting disclosures for construction loans
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CFPB to distribute more than $240,000 to consumers harmed by student loan debt-relief scam
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Servicemembers continue to face major financial challenges
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Next public hearing on appraisal bias: November 1
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Protecting Immigrant Access to Fair Credit Opportunities
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Four million complaints: More than just a milestone
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The law requires companies to delete disputed unverified information from consumer reports
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As payments on federal student loans resume, federal student loan borrowers may be eligible for cancellation or lower payments
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Tips for recovering financially from Hurricane Idalia
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Recovering financially from the Hawaii wildfires
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What we’re hearing from consumers in New Mexico
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Financial struggles in Puerto Rico bite deeper than the rest of the United States
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Federal housing agencies strongly encourage landlords to provide tenants written notice of their rights
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Looking at credit scores only tells part of the story – cashflow data may tell another part
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Twelve years of protecting consumers and honest businesses
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What’s ahead for Bank of America and its customers
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Office of Research blog: Initial Fresh Start program changes followed by increased credit scores for affected student loan borrowers
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Ensuring consumers receive critical lending protections
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CFPB to distribute more than $3.5 million to consumers who were charged illegal fees to reduce or eliminate their federal student loans
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The CFPB's 2022 fair lending annual report to congress
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How are mortgages with a COVID-related forbearance performing in 2023?
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Protecting consumers’ right to challenge discrimination
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Accepting applications for CFPB advisory committees
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Worker surveillance poses potential privacy harms
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The CFPB intends to identify ways to simplify and streamline the existing mortgage servicing rules
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Laying the foundation for open banking in the United States
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We are extending the deadline for comments about data brokers
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The CFPB has entered the chat
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Office of Research blog: Update on student loan borrowers during payment suspension
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New lessons for elder justice networks
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Algorithms, artificial intelligence, and fairness in home appraisals
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Mortgage data shows that borrowers could save $100 a month (or more) by choosing cheaper lenders
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Building resilience and durability into mortgage rules
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Have medical debt? Anything already paid or under $500 should no longer be on your credit report
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CFPB to distribute more than $22 million to consumers harmed by Burlington Financial Group’s debt relief and credit repair scams
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Adjustable-rate loans are changing, because a widely-used interest rate index expires in June
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Credit reporting companies should do more to ensure that servicemembers receive the free credit monitoring services they are legally entitled to
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Zombie second mortgages: When collectors come for long forgotten home loans
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Office of Research blog: Who gets sued in civil courts? Civil judgments are not evenly distributed
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As outstanding credit card debt hits new high, the CFPB is focusing on ways to increase competition and reduce costs
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Protecting people from discriminatory targeting
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CFPB to distribute more than $4.7 million to consumers impacted by nationwide student financial aid scam
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Tell us your experiences with data brokers
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CFPB has allocated $11 million for consumers harmed by illegal student loan debt relief operation
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Bringing tech enforcers together to protect consumers

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