September 21, 2022 Today, in response to news of the passage of the Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Act in the U.S. House, which will now head to the President’s desk, Kyra Taylor, student loan staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, issued the following statement: “We applaud Congress’s long overdue decision to create a [...]
September 14, 2022 WASHINGTON – Over 100 consumer, civil rights, and labor groups today called on CFPB Director Rohit Chopra to exercise the agency’s authority to limit forced arbitration clauses, which are commonly buried in the fine print of consumer financial contracts to eliminate the rights of customers seeking accountability when scammed, cheated, or defrauded by big banks. [...]
August 30, 2022 Student Defense, NCLC, Lawyers’ Committee Issue Statements on Department of Education Granting Debt Relief to 79,000 Former Students of For-Profit Westwood College Today, the U.S. Department of Education issued a final decision granting relief to roughly 79,000 former students at Westwood College. In response, Student Defense, the National Consumer Law Center, and [...]
August 25, 2022 Biden Administration Issues Order to Reduce Impact of Medical Debt on Federal Loan Programs WASHINGTON – The White House has issued marching orders to federal agencies to focus on ways to reduce the impact of medical debt on federal lending programs. The directive comes in a memorandum published this morning by the [...]
August 24, 2022 Today, in response to President Biden’s announcement on student debt cancellation, advocates at the National Consumer Law Center issued the following statements: “Today’s announcement of widespread debt cancellation with additional debt relief for those from low-income households promises transformational relief to tens of millions of low-income families and people of color who [...]
August 18, 2022 WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must take swift action to stop telephone service providers from making money by transmitting illegal robocalls to U.S. telephone numbers, according to the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). NCLC and EPIC submitted comments in response to the FCC’s [...]
August 16, 2022 WASHINGTON – National Consumer Law Center advocates applaud the Department of Education’s decision today to discharge $3.9 billion of debt for 208,000 borrowers who attended all ITT Technical Institute campuses between January 1, 2005 and until its closure in 2016 and about 100 borrowers who attended Kaplan Career Institute in Massachusetts. “The [...]
Carla Sanchez-Adams is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, focusing on emerging issues in banking and payment systems, fintech, and high-cost lending. She is a contributor to NCLC's Consumer Banking and Payments Law treatise. Before joining NCLC, Carla was a managing attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA), assisting low-income Texans [...]
July 27, 2022 Impossibility of Navigating Student Loan System While Behind Bars Poses Massive Risks to Administration's Recent Pell and Fresh Start Proposals WASHINGTON — Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center and National Consumer Law Center released a first-of-its-kind report examining the intersection of two social justice crises long in the making—the student loan debt [...]
June 13, 2022 Resistance by Gas Utilities Has Not Allowed for a Meaningful Update to Furnace Standards in 35 Years Today, national consumer groups hailed the release of the Department of Energy’s proposal to increase energy efficiency standards for residential furnaces as a crucial step toward saving consumers at least $30.3 billion on their energy [...]
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