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CFPB Complaints Shattered Records In COVID-19 Pandemic

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On March 1, 2021, the United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) released a study – “Consumers In Peril” – that reviewed the public complaint database of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and found consumer complaints about financial grievances spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

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On December 1, the House of Representatives approved a resolution to repeal a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that mandated banks to gather data on loan applications from women-owned, minority-owned, and small businesses to help lenders identify business development needs and opportunities. on June 5-7, 2024.

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Debt collectors re-evaluate medical debt furnishing in light of data integrity issues

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This decline, as well as insights from CFPB market monitoring, suggests that debt collectors are moving away from reporting (or furnishing) medical bills to credit reporting companies, resulting in fewer medical tradelines on consumer credit reports.

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CFPB Highlights Purported “Problems With Tenant Background Checks”

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On November 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued two reports, highlighting what the CFPB perceives to be forms of errors that frequently occur in tenant background checks and the impacts the CFPB believes that those errors can have on potential renters. Consumer Reports.

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DFPI marks success in implementation of the California Consumer Financial Protection Law

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The Department has made substantial progress in its first year to implement the new law, expand protection for consumers, and foster responsible financial innovation,” said Clothilde V. Research and Market Monitoring. Hewlett, DFPI Commissioner. “We In 2020, the Legislature passed the CCFPL as AB 1864 (Limón).

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On September 29, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a joint amicus brief in the U.S. In the case, a consumer disputed information on her credit report alleging that multiple credit card accounts were opened without her knowledge. For more information, click here.

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Credit Report Complaints Jumped In 2021

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Arizonans went from filing 6,600 complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2020 to filing nearly 8,000 the next year, the most on record. But a trade group that represents the credit reporting companies questioned the reliability of the CFPB’s complaint reports.