Final week, on April 27, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced S. 3264 entitled the Debt Settlement Shopper Protection Act. Both USOBA and TASC had been purposefully saved at nighttime on the Act’s secret improvement, even if both groups have been working on debt settlement laws in numerous states for years, while also working with the Federal Trade Fee right now on a similar rulemaking effort.
As soon as USOBA and TASC realized in regards to the Act, they reviewed it and decided that the payment provisions are so restrictive and radical as to shut down most if not all debt settlement companies. Those provisions ban any charges other than a $50 set up charge and a settlement charge to not exceed 5% of what an organization saves a consumer. By way of instance, if a shopper enrolls $10,000 in debt, and an organization settles it for $5,000 over a typical three-year program, essentially the most you possibly can cost is $50+ 5% of $5,000, a complete of $300 (not recoverable till you settle all their money owed). This is a mean of $8.33 monthly, barely greater than the minimal wage. It represents an attempt at the most restrictive, destructive payment provision within the country.
USOBA and TASC immediately requested a meeting with Sen. Schumer’s staff. Yesterday, they had that assembly and discovered that the Senator’s office has been working on this legislation for 9 months; that they've been working with consumer teams on its growth; and, that the Senator intends to forgo any actual discussion of this bill by instead providing it in full as an modification to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act, which is within the last phases of completion. The workers provided us a chance to offer our ideas to the invoice, however gave us solely 24 hours to do so, as they plan to supply their modification by the tip of this week. If they succeed of their plan, this modification will move in the next week, if not the following week, effectively ending debt settlement companies as we all know them.
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