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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

Another revision makes it mandatory for hospitals seeking to garnish a patient’s wages or bank accounts to include with the summons and complaint initiating such action an “affidavit of expert review” making various certifications. Annual report requirements will be adopted through a separate rulemaking.

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How New York State’s 2024 Plan Will Affect Debt Collection

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Hochul made it clear that the state will assist consumers in New York by adding greater consumer protections—a plan that will affect creditors and debtors alike. More specifically, the Department of Financial Services will crack down on the “buy now, pay later” industry. Over 700,000 New Yorkers have medical debt.

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How New York State’s 2024 Plan Will Affect Debt Collection

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Hochul made it clear that the state will assist consumers in New York by adding greater consumer protections—a plan that will affect creditors and debtors alike. More specifically, the Department of Financial Services will crack down on the “buy now, pay later” industry. Over 700,000 New Yorkers have medical debt.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On March 23, Representatives Steve Cohen, Suzanne Bonamici, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Fair Debt Collection Improvement Act that would prohibit debt collectors from collecting or attempting to collect debt from consumers after a statute of limitation expires. For more information, click here.

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DEBT COLLECTION INDUSTRY DEEMS ITSELF ESSENTIAL TO “FINANCIAL HEALTH” OF CONSUMERS, FIGHTS COVID-19 SHUTDOWN

Collection Industry News

DEBT COLLECTORS, facing growing demands to freeze the collection of debt across the country amid the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic, are mobilizing their lobbyists to push back. In New York, residents are receiving a 30-day reprieve from the collection of state-owned medical and student debt.

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District Court Provides Successful Road Map for Bona Fide Error Defense

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By Zachary Dunn October 16, 2017 The FDCPA, through section 1692d(6), prohibits a debt collector from placing telephone calls to a debtor “without meaningful disclosure of the caller’s identity.” 11 2017), the debtor, Berry, defaulted on student loans he had taken out with the US Department of Education. In Berry v.