Consumer Credit Credit Card Debt Debt collector Education 
Troutman Sanders
DECEMBER 7, 2021
On December 1, the Federal Reserve Board and the CFPB announced the dollar thresholds that determine exemption of certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2022, from Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation M (Consumer Leasing). For more information, click here. For more information, click here.
Troutman Sanders
MAY 9, 2023
On May 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a permanent ban from debt relief telemarketing for operators of debt relief scam. The FTC charged the defendants with taking tens of millions of dollars from people by falsely promising to eliminate or substantially reduce their credit card debt.
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Troutman Sanders
OCTOBER 30, 2023
On October 25, the CFPB released its biennial report to Congress on the consumer credit card market. The report found that in 2022 credit card companies charged consumers more than $105 billion in interest and more than $25 billion in fees. For more information, click here.
Collection Industry News
AUGUST 30, 2021
of Americans had medical debt in collections as of June 2020, according to a study from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which analyzed consumer credit reports between January 2009 and June 2020. We ended up refinancing our mortgage to combine our credit card debt that was significantly over $10,000.
Better Credit Blog
JANUARY 20, 2022
This is why many people engage the services of a debt relief agency. TransUnion calculates that paying off $5,000 of credit card debt at the minimum rate costs $10,000 in interest. I had to make my own payment arrangements with the debt collector so that we could keep our furnace. National Debt Relief.
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