Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
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Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
We hope more relief will come to people who are relying on unemployment benefits, especially those using unemployment debit cards. The U.S. Department of Labor has spoken…at least on unemployment insurance debit cards. The DOL guidelines lay out the following recommendations to states: Read more »
Jon Stewart makes a great point about banks making profits off of the consumers who bailed them out Read more »
Are Credit Card companies getting ready to declare open season on college students? Read more »
It seems no one is safe from the current whirling dervish of credit card madness these days. CU's Bob Williams, Strategic Resource Director in our DC office, tells his personal tale of Credit Card horror. Read more »
Credit Card Companies have improved their ability to rip off large amounts of people in a short amount of time.
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We’ve all been waiting patiently for the credit card reforms that were passed in May to go into effect, while the credit card companies jack our rates and lower our limits. Finally the first reforms are going into effect! Read more »
We just released a report, Prepaid Cards: Second-Tier Bank Account Substitutes that details prepaid card "gotchas," such as the mountain of fees consumers would be hit with along with lack of guaranteed consumer protections. Read more »
When will lenders live up to their end of a bargain? Read more »
As more and more families face foreclosure predatory lenders smell blood in the water. Here is some advice from Norma Garcia, Senior Attorney for Consumers Union. Read more »
