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CFPB FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST NAVIENT, PIONEER CREDIT
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit as part of three separate complaints against Navient, a student loan servicer, and Pioneer Credit, a subsidiary of the company. Pioneer was one of the four companies selected by the Internal Revenue Service to collect on unpaid federal tax bills. Pioneer allegedly made illegal representations to borrowers about rehabilitation programs available to those who were in default. Navient is accused of misallocating payments, steering people into costly plans, supplying the wrong information and ignoring borrowers’ pleas for help. The company claims the CFPB is being politically motivated in the filing of the suit.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE NO LOVE FOR DEBT BUYING BUSINESS MODEL
- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no love for the debt-buying business model, according to her questions and comments from a hearing held earlier this week. “I’m sorry. I’m having a great deal of difficulty with this business model. Completely,” Justice Sotomayor told the lawyer representing Midland Funding, a company accused of filing a claim on a time-barred debt against an individual who had filed for bankruptcy protection. Read another in-depth accounting of the hearing here.
CONGRESS SAYS CFPB MAY HAVE BROKEN LAW WITH AUTO LENDING INITIATIVE
- Did Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violate federal laws when it issued an auto lending rule in 2015? A report released by Congressional Republicans is making that allegation. Whether it is true or whether Republicans are sowing seeds of doubt as a means of giving President-elect Donald Trump more ammunition to remove Cordray remain to be seen.
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