Joint Letter: Letter to FHA urging stay on foreclosures during government shutdown
Letter to FHA urging stay on foreclosures during government shutdown
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Joint Letter: Letter to CRAs urging credit relief for consumers affected by natural disasters
Letter to CRAs urging credit relief for consumers affected by natural disasters
Joint Letter: Letter to CRAs urging credit relief for federal workers impacted by government shutdown
Letter to CRAs urging them to take steps to protect the credit reports of federal workers affected by the government shutdown
Joint Letter: Letter to the USDA urging for a stop the foreclosures during the government shutdown
Advocate etter to USDA urging stop to foreclosures during government shutdown
Joint Letter: Letter to the CFPB on Data Collection
AFR Education Fund was among the 18 organizations that submitted these comments responding to the CFPB’s RFI on data collection on December 27, 2018. You can view or download pdf of the letter here.
AFR In The News: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Top Six Dubious Accomplishments In 2018 (Talking Points Memo)
“The failure of Mulvaney’s CFPB to properly carry out the law, whether by failing to supervise companies or dropping cases that were underway is a green light for direct and immediate harm to ordinary Americans,” Carter Dougherty, communications director for Americans for Financial Reform, told TPM via email.
Joint Statement: Advocates Urge Consumer Bureau To Protect Consumers From Abusive Debt Collectors
Advocates from 74 national and state advocacy groups sent a letter yesterday afternoon to new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger urging the bureau to focus on protecting consumers from abusive debt collection practices in anticipation of a proposed debt collection rule expected in March 2019.
Joint Letter: Specific Recommendations To Protect Consumers Through Ongoing Rulemaking On Debt Collection
As we approach the fifth year anniversary of the proposed rulemaking on debt collection, and the regulatory process appears to be moving forward, the 74 undersigned consumer, community, civil rights, faith, labor and legal services groups write to urge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“Consumer Bureau”) to focus on protecting consumers from abusive debt collection practices in any rule that it issues.
News Release: Extralegal ‘No-Action Letter’ Policy Would Exempt Industries From Basic Supervision And Enforcement
In Mick Mulvaney’s final hours as acting director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed two policies that put consumers at gravely increased risk of the very harm the CFPB is supposed to prevent.