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Medical Credit Cards Drive Up Cost of Care, Says CFPB

CFPB says medical credit cards are driving up the cost of care with more than $1 billion accrued in deferred interest.

Kiplinger

Beware 'Junk Fees' When Buying a Home

Junk fees could add thousands to the cost of a property. Here’s what you need to know about these hidden mortgage costs.

Kiplinger

Biden administration warns consumers to avoid medical credit cards

Americans paid an estimated $1 billion in interest on medical debt in just three years, a federal agency finds. This includes use of credit cards often pitched in doctors' and dentists' offices.

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The Government Wants To Cap Credit Card Late Fees. It Will Hurt the Poor.

Delayed payments will increase, and companies will respond by raising interest rates—or denying low-income applicants outright.

Reason

Second Circuit weighs in on CFPB funding structure

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Ballotpedia

CFPB employee sent data of 250,000 customers to personal email - Roll Call

A GOP lawmaker said in a letter the breach involved could have implicated more than 50 financial institutions' "sensitive information."

Roll Call

Federal Courts Clash Over Financial Watchdog's Constitutionality

The CFPB funding scheme is constitutional, the 2nd Circuit says.

Reason

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Anti-Muslim tweets, inactive warrants, and anti-Muslim prison guards.

Reason

Supreme Court case features twist on appropriations power

WASHINGTON — Congress has used a clause in the Constitution for more than two centuries to control how the federal government spends funds, but the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether that same language also limits what lawmakers can do.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court case features twist on appropriations power - Roll Call

The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the Appropriations Clause in the Constitution limits what lawmakers can do.

Roll Call

Biden administration urged to take more aggressive steps to relieve medical debt

Dozens of advocates for patients and consumers, citing widespread harm caused by medical debt, are pushing the Biden administration to take more aggressive steps to protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors.

Tribune News Service

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief

More than 50 consumer and patient groups want the Biden Administration to aggressively protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors. The effort follows a KHN/NPR investigation.

WEKU

Protect consumers by safeguarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

It’s important the U.S. Supreme Court puts aside its politics and gets a ruling right on a case challenging the CFPB.

Chicago Sun-Times

Congress Should Not Give Any Government Agency Financial Free Rein

Lawmakers should proactively retake the power of the purse from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.

Reason

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Subprime car loan delinquencies are surging

Despite the strong job market, the rising cost of everything is pressuring lower-income families

WEKU

Supreme Court to hear case that threatens existence of consumer protection agency

At issue is how the CFPB is funded: It gets its money from the Federal Reserve, which in turn is funded by bank fees, and not through congressional appropriations.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court to decide fate of Obama-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street collapse and funded directly by the Federal Reserve.

Axios

Supreme Court will consider constitutionality of CFPB

This case may be the most serious challenge yet to the decade-plus-old agency.

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Roll Call

Supreme Court to decide case over consumer agency funding - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will decide a case that challenges the way Congress chose to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Fortune

Republican regulator rips Lina Khan in ‘noisy exit,’ accuses ‘hipster antitrust’ boss of breaking the law by having opinions on Mark Zuckerberg

Khan once wrote that Zuckerberg should never be allowed to make another acquisition. Now we know the strength of internal dissent over that.

The Independent UK

18% drop since 2020 in people reporting medical debt

The number of people with medical debt on their credit reports fell by 8.2 million — or 17.9% —between 2020 and 2022

WEKU

Biden calls for passage of a bill to stop 'junk fees' in travel and entertainment

In his State of the Union speech, President Biden addressed the Junk Fees Prevention Act, which aims to limit the hidden fees and charges that exist in the entertainment and travel industries.

WEKU

Miss a credit card payment? Federal regulators want to put new limits on late fees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to cap late fees at $8. Banking groups say the proposal would result in higher costs for consumers.

Roll Call

CFPB proposes lowering credit card late fees - Roll Call

The Biden administration says new regulations on credit card late fees could save consumers $9 billion a year.

Tribune News Service

White House directs FTC, CFPB to probe housing rental market practices

Landlords will face greater federal scrutiny from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission and other agencies amid rapidly rising rents under a plan that President Joe Biden released Wednesday.

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