Letter to Congress: Seven Groups Urge Chairman Neal to End Surprise Medical Billing
Americans for Financial Reform and six other organizations sent a letter to Chairman Neal urging action to end surprise medical billing.
Category Archives: Letters to Congress
Joint Statement: 103 Organizations Agree – Congress Needs to Cancel Student Debt
Today, 103 civil rights, consumer and advocacy organizations and think tanks sent a joint letter to House and Senate leadership, urging them to include student debt cancellation in the next economic stimulus package.
Led by American for Financial Reform, Demos, Center for Responsible Lending and Freedom to Prosper, the letter stresses the ways that if left unaddressed, the student debt trap will deepen our current recession, slow our economic recovery, exacerbate inequality, and deepen a crisis already facing black and brown borrowers and families.
Sign-on letter: 103 orgs call for canceling student debt to tackle economic fallout
Over 100 organizations sent a letter to House and Senate leadership urging them to include student debt cancellation in the next coronavirus package.
Letter to Congress: Joint Letter in Support of Credit Reporting Provisions in HEROES Act
Letter to Congress from 73 groups in support of the credit reporting provisions in the HEROES Act
Joint Letter: Letter to Congress from 104 Groups in Support of COVID-19 Debt Collection Protections
Letter from 104 groups urging Congress to enact COVID-19 debt collection protections
Letter to NJ State Senate: AFR Supports S. 2358 to address abuses in the private student loan market
Americans for Financial Reform wrote to the New Jersey State Senate in support of S. 2358. This important bill seeks to stop practices like dual tracking and robo-signing in the private student loan market. As a coalition formed in the wake of the 2008 financial
Joint Letter: Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Strengthen and Clarify Coronavirus-Related Data Disclosures
Detailed and timely data disclosures are required to ensure Coronavirus-related expenditures and benefits are being delivered to the public as Congress intended.
Letters to Congress: AFR Letter in Support of the Senior Investor Pandemic and Fraud Protection Act.
AFR sent a letter in support of the Senior Investor Pandemic and Fraud Protection Act.
Letters to Congress: Joint Letter in Support of HJ Res 90
AFR joined many national, state and local partners in a letter of support of HJ Res. 90, a disapproval resolution that would overturn the OCC’s Community Reinvestment Act rule that was finalized in May.
Joint Letter: AFR, SBPC and 30 orgs urge HELP Committee to Oppose Liability Shields for Colleges during COVID-19
AFR, SBPC and 30 organizations Oppose “Liability Shields” for Colleges Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Americans for Financial Reform joined with the Student Borrower Protection Center in leading a to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions opposing any effort to shield