DALLAS , Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty percent of consumers who took out loans during the past six months used them for emergencies or to pay bills, and one out of four people used recent loans to pay towards credit card debt, according to a consumer survey by ScoreSense®, a credit score monitoring product. The survey findings, revealed in the "Survey of Consumers with Recent Loans and Credit Outlook Analysis," focused on consumer loan and credit activity for the third quarter of 2022.
Director of the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute’s (NAGTRI) Center for Consumer Protection at the National Association of Attorneys General, Abby has devoted her career to the cause of consumer protection. Before coming to NAAG in 2017, Abby was Chief of the Consumer Protection Bureau in the Nebraska AG’s Office, where she was a formidable leader in the fight against fraud and deception. At NAGTRI, Abby heads the nation’s only entity dedicated solely to providing training, research, and expertise to the staff of AGs’ offices and other government agencies committed to protecting the public from consumer fraud and abuse.
HARRISBURG– Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that his office filed a lawsuit against New York-based Fluent, Inc. – a company that connects advertisers to potential new customers through the consumers’ personal data – for their and their subsidiaries’ role in allegedly causing hundreds of thousands of unwanted robocalls to be placed to Pennsylvania consumers. Fluent and its subsidiaries Fluent LLC, CAC, American Prize Center, LLC, Deliver Technology, LLC, Rewardzone USA, LLC, and Samples & Savings USA, LLC, collected personal information, including telephone numbers, and that was then sold to telemarketing companies. This included the personal information of thousands of consumers on Pennsylvania’s Do Not Call List.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is investigating U.S. Bank over its handling of unemployment insurance payments using prepaid debit cards during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minneapolis-based bank disclosed in a securities filing on Tuesday.
Sixteen million Americans with student debt will soon get their application for forgiveness approved — though the cancellation won’t appear on their accounts while a legal challenge from Republican-led states plays out in court.