Western New York Law Center

2/28/13

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Feb 282013

 

• CBPP: Sequestration’s Impact: It’s Real
• IOLA Grants Committee Meeting
• NYS Bridge Plan Suspends New Enrollments After March 2, 2013
• CRL Comment to CFPB on Ability to Repay Standards under the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z)
• Empire Justice Memo of Support: Ensure Due Process for Consumers in Medicaid Managed Long Term Care Program

2/27/13

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Feb 272013

 

• The Impact of the Sequester on WIC
• Student debtor who lost fair debt case loses again in Supreme Court
• Child Care Subsidies Are in Danger Across New York State
• New York Times Article on Banks Aiding Payday Loans: There’s Even More to the Story

2/26/13

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Feb 262013

 

• A Housing Problem – Or an Income Problem?
• State shuts down two debt collectors in Buffalo
• Massachusetts Bill To Ban Data-Mining of Student Emails
• NY Times: Despite Aid, Borrowers Still Face Foreclosure
• Housing caught in the wake of sequester debates
• CBPP: Comparison of Benefits for Poor Families to Middle-Class Incomes Is Deeply Flawed
  

2/25/13

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Feb 252013

 

• CFPB: Help stop the student debt domino effect
• NY Times: Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States
• Consumer Bureau Said to Warn Banks of Auto Lending Suits
• Governor Cuomo Announces Department of Financial Services Notifies Debt Collectors Not to Seek Collection on Illegal Payday Loans

2/22/13

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Feb 222013

 

• The Language of Justice
• The reason foreclosures will continue
• Canarsie Braces for Foreclosure Wave After Sandy
• Using TANF to Fight Family Homelessness
• How Borrowers Choose and Repay Payday Loans
• Medicaid Alerts –published by the Medical Insurance and Community Services Administration (MICSA) of New York City’s Department of Human Resources (HRA)

2/21/13

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Feb 212013

 

• Editorial: Stem tide of rising student debt
• Consumer Financial Agency Chief Lays Out 2013 Agenda
• FTC Action Halts Operation That Billed More Than $25 Million to Consumers’ Bank and Credit Card Accounts without Their Consent
• MLTC Roll-Out – Due Process Appeal Rights Clarified, Expansion to Nassau, Suffolk & Westchester / and to CHHA, Adult Day Care and Private Duty Nursing in NYC

2/20/13

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Feb 202013

 

• HARP hits 2 million refinances
• Advantages of a non-Apple phone or tablet
• Minimum wage hike back on the table
• Mortgage bill promoted by Obama faces uphill climb
• Notice of Proposted Settlement of Class Acton -Suffolk County – Child Care Benefits

2/19/13

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Feb 192013

 

• Lawyer iPhone and iPad stories
• Advocates Pan City’s Record on Disabilities
• CFPB: Qualified mortgages explained
• Defense attorneys say judges wrongly allow ‘robo-witnesses’