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Politicians Continue Public Investment in Climate Scam – Mens Newsdaily
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant under the Clean Air Act, granting itself authority for an enormous, unprecedented regulatory undertaking that would greatly expand the EPA’s …
Comcast Sicced Collections On Me Before My Bill Was Due
Dan says he’s feeling a bit untrusted by Comcast, which has released the collection agency hounds on him, despite his bill’s due date still being a ways off. He writes: I canceled Comcast at the beginning of October. When I returned my cable box I was told that I would received an adjusted bill for $44.05. When I had only received unadjusted bills for much more by mid November I called
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Sandy company fined for Web scam hasn’t paid – Salt Lake Tribune
A Sandy-based company claiming to allow people to make tens of thousands of dollars performing Web searches owes more than $40,000 in fines for scamming customers. The Utah Division of Consumer Protection originally fined the company in April, but …
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5,000-plus H1N1 vaccines down – Galesburg Register-Mail
The waiting room inside the Knox County Health Department was a busy place Friday morning. “Busy is a good sign,” said Wil Hayes, the department’s director of health protection said. “Sometimes I feel like I’m a chicken running around here …
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New scams in the dark economy – Star-Tribune
CHEYENNE — Mark Moran, who has been running the consumer protection unit in the Wyoming attorney general’s office for many, many years, refers to the current recession as the “dark economy.” He says the economic slump is generating a whole new …
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Florida Company Charged with Failing to Deliver Mortgage Help – WTIC
Instead he says for uprtong fees of up to 45-hundred dollars, all the company did was scam consumers. He and Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell are suing the company, seeking restitution for customers as well as civil penalties.
Fight against Internet payday lenders continues – Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT — The Office of West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw is continuing its fight against Internet payday lenders. Last week, the office’s Consumer Protection Division filed two lawsuits against several Internet payday lenders and …
Fed Cracks Down on Excessive Gift Card Fees – NewsMax.com
Last week the central bank banned overdraft fees on automated-teller-machine and debit-card transactions unless consumers have actively selected an overdraft protection service.
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UPDATE 1-Fed proposes crackdown on excessive gift card fees – Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve stepped up its consumer protection efforts for the second time in less than a week on Monday, proposing to limit the ability of gift card issuers to impose excessive fees. The Fed proposed …
Richland farmers’ market goes online – Bellingham Herald
The fee helps offset the hosting, e-commerce, photos, credit card processing, fraud protection – the costs involved, he said. Since the Web site went live the Smarts have seen traffic from every state in the United States and from various countries …
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Daw: Retirees look at Plan B – Toronto Star
• Pensions become more valuable the longer you work, likely more valuable than a voluntary separation payment unless it brings you close to an unreduced pension. Be aware that a company pension plan that has no inflation protection will have a …
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Fed bans some overdraft fees – St. Augustine Record
Flexing newfound muscle as consumer protector, the Federal Reserve on Thursday banned overdraft fees on automated teller machine and debit-card transactions unless consumers have actively opted for an overdraft protection service. The new rules mean …
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How Much Protection Does Overdraft Fee Rule Provide? – consumer affairs.com
The Federal Reserve this week issued a new rule requiring banks to allow customers to decide whether they want the automatic “courtesy” overdraft protection, that covers debit card purchases when they overdraw their accounts, but nicks them with a …
You can opt out of overdraft fees – Chicago Sun-Times
If they don’t sign up for overdraft protection, financial institutions will be prohibited from charging fees for paying overdrafts on ATM and debit card transactions, the Federal Reserve Board said Thursday. The rules also prohibit financial …
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Fed Slaps Curbs on Overdraft Fees – Wall Street Journal
… customers to opt in to “overdraft protection” programs, meaning they would have to agree to pay a fee any time they overdraw their accounts at automated-teller machines or using a debit card. If they don’t agree, any effort to withdraw money …
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I Ran From My Husband For Protection But Now I’m in Deep Debt. – Linda
Linda wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form. I’m happy to help you totally for free.
Income from the GetOutOfDebt.org site advertising is used to help alleviate poverty. If you would like to [...]
Consumer Debt Options Threatened: “Consumer are the losers with a debt settlement industry in crisis.”
Press release just out from New Era Debt Solutions.
A whole lot of commonsense and truth in this release. Good job guys.
@GetOutOfDebtGuy
CONSUMER DEBT OPTIONS THREATENED
“Consumers are the losers with a debt settlement industry in crisis.”
People today are facing more immediate financial pressure than ever before. Jobs are vanishing, foreclosures are trending at record numbers [...]
