News

2021

October

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• 13 estados que cobran impuestos por recibir beneficios del Seguro Social. Saber qué estados cobran impuestos del Seguro Social podría ayudarte a tomar mejores decisiones sobre dónde deseas vivir cuando te jubiles, ya que podrías considerar mudarte a un

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• Estadounidenses desembolsan $175 dólares más por mes, por inflación. La escasez de suministro y el gasto público masivo han estimulado a la inflación de los precios, que según el jefe de Moody's Analytics, cuesta a los hogares

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• How to tell real products from scams when shopping online. Try looking up a company’s one- and two-star reviews, which can tell you far more about the products (sometimes they can even reassure you a product is real). Be aware of reviews that

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• Senate confirms Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Senate narrowly approved President Joe Biden's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, giving the bureau a director* who is likely to embrace an aggressive "watchdog" role, similar to how

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• Consumer Action INSIDER - October 2021. In this month's edition, we report on our upcoming 50th anniversary events, warn rental car customers about the often unexpected cost of tolls, highlight recent coalition efforts and CFPB activities, and alert readers to a class action suit against Wells Fargo for unrefunded GAP fees.

September

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• Freddie Mac finds ‘pervasive’ bias in home appraisal industry. A study from the federal housing finance agency Freddie Mac adds to a growing body of research that finds racism in the appraisal industry is undervaluing the homes of Black and Latino Americans

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• Companies are hoarding your personal data. How to get them to delete it. What data can you actually request to delete? When we say “your data,” we mean information like your name, phone number, email and home address. Some companies collect far more, like your age,

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• Financial pain points for older consumers. Ten years after its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint database serves as a powerful tool for individuals to file complaints about a financial product or service, to see that their

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• Medicare should be able to negotiate drug prices. For far too long, the pharmaceutical industry has dictated who in America has access to the medicines they need for their health and well-being.  The industry’s unchecked power to set and keep

• Insurers restore deductibles, co-pays leaving patients with big bills. In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and expensive deductibles for hospital stays that frequently range into the

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• Cómo administrar tus tarjetas de crédito. Muchos estadounidenses tienen problemas para llevar la cuenta de sus tarjetas, pero solucionar el problema es complicado. Esto es lo que puedes hacer.

• La pandemia afectó tu economía. Esto debes hacer. Quizá perdiste tu trabajo. Tal vez te recortaron las horas. Quizá tuviste que hacerte cargo de alguien. Si tus ingresos decayeron de forma drástica en los últimos 18 meses &mdash

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• Evita que una crisis de salud se convierta en una catástrofe financiera. Un poder notarial, un poder de atención médica y un testamento en vida pueden protegerte a ti y a tu familia

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• Equifax will now offer credit reports in Spanish. Equifax will offer Spanish-translated credit reports for free, both online and via mail.  The move will help more than 62 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. Equifax is the first credit reporting firm to

• How you pay the rent may help your mortgage application. Later this month, a group of renters in the United States will get a new break when they try to become homeowners: Their history of consistently paying their landlords will count toward qualifying for a

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• CFPB wants to hear hear from small business owners about access to credit. The CFPB is asking small business owners to share their experiences while trying to get a small business loan or during the process of getting a loan. The Bureau says that this will help inform

• HHS releases plan to lower drug prices. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released a comprehensive plan to lower drug prices. The Drug Pricing Plan is part of a broader initiative stemming from President Joe Biden’s Executive Order

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• New York extends eviction moratorium to January. New York State lawmakers agreed to extend sweeping protections against evictions into next year. The new agreement, which extends the moratorium through Jan.15 and was passed by the State Legislature late Wednesday, now creates one

• ‘El algoritmo me despidió’: un proyecto de ley de California apunta a cambiar la dura cultura laboral de Amazon. Los legisladores de California tienen a Amazon en la mira. Se espera que un proyecto de ley aprobado por la Asamblea llegue al Senado esta semana, o la próxima, para corregir las turbias

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• Consumer Action INSIDER - September 2021. In this month's edition, we report on new members to our board, examine inaccurate news reports, share some stories from student loan borrowers who were burned by the federal government's public service loan forgiveness program, and present our recorded webinar on how to get the temporary Emergency Broadband Benefit, a monthly subsidy that can help your household connect to high speed broadband for less money.