US: Proposed Debt Collection Rule Fails Consumers

Expand © 2016 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s proposed rule on debt collection companies in the United States would severely undermine protections for consumers, Human Rights Watch said today. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule would give wide leeway to abusive debt collectors and collection attorneys by allowing them to try to collect debts by using false, deceptive, or misleading representations, even after the statute of limitations has ended. Human Rights Watch joined 232 organizations from across the United States in…

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