Tag: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

debt collector phone calling

Telephone customer service has become so automated that it can be extremely frustrating to resolve a problem. When it comes to bill collectors, the stakes are high. If the matter isn’t resolved, it can ruin your credit.  In this video, Ana, a Cuban immigrant to Miami in the 1970s, hit a wall of silence after…

United States Supreme Court Building

I received an email recently regarding a 2022 decision by a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The decision found the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional because the agency gets its money outside of the annual appropriations process.  The Supreme Court has now agreed to hear the case.  The question is…