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Consumer Financial Protection Agency – What it is and What it does
The President’ today released his comprehensive plan to fix the oversight of financial products and markets.
Categories: Banking, CFPB, Gift Cards, Mortgages, Payments
Tags: checks, debit cards, insurance
Credit Union Insurance Coverage
FDIC Insurance Calculator
FDIC Insurance Calculator EDIE lets consumers and bankers know, on a per-bank basis, how the insurance rules and limits apply to a depositor’s specific group of deposit accounts?what’s insured and what portion (if any) exceeds coverage limits at that bank. EDIE also allows the user to print the report for their records. EDIE calculates the Continue Reading
Insurance
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: insurance
Economic Downturn
Did your plans for the future change because of the economy?
Categories: CFPB
Tags: contracts, insurance, investments
Lauren Z. Bowne, Staff Attorney
Lauren came to CU as a staff attorney in May of 2005 to work on children’s health insurance with the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Project. She spent three years working on issues ranging from childhood obesity and marketing to children to nonprofit health entity conversions and health marketplace reform. Since 2008 she?s been a member of the Financial Services Advocacy Team and focuses on issues related to credit cards and bank products. During law school Lauren studied consumer food issues and environmental policy. Before getting her legal education Lauren spent time working with a bay area organization that advocates for children’s after-school and child-care programs. Lauren lives in San Francisco.
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Tags: insurance
New Jersey
Eligibility: All consumers
Fees: No fee to place the first security freeze. $5 fee to lift the freeze temporarily, remove it altogether, or to have PIN reissued.
Note: Consumers are also permitted to make such requests directly to consumer reporting
agencies via secured electronic mail.
Effective date of law: January 1, 2006
Permanent freeze remains until removal requested by consumer.
Copy of New Jersey’s security freeze law
Instructions for using New Jersey’s security freeze law from NJ’s Dept of Banking and Insurance
Categories: Credit Cards, Privacy, Security Freeze
Tags: insurance
Langdon McAlpin
This disabled police officer in Loganville, Georgia says he was sold a mortgage he couldn’t afford. He’s lived in his home for 19 years.
OCC response on prepaid cards and FDIC insurance coverage
Per Consumers Union letter, Comptroller of the Currency responds regarding prepaid cards.
Categories: Prepaid Cards
Tags: insurance, letter
Letter to the Comptroller of the Currency regarding stored value cards
Consumers should have peace of mind that the funds on their prepaid cards are protected.
Categories: Banking, Prepaid Cards
Tags: insurance, letter
