National Consumer Law Center

June 18, 2026 — Featured News Appearing in USA Today on June 18, 2026, Medora Lee cites NCLC’s Student Loan Borrower Assistance blog post in coverage of federal student loan changes scheduled to take effect July 1. Experts say Parent PLUS borrowers urgently need to take action or face irreversible consequences. Borrowers should go to studentaid.gov to review repayment options now rather than wait until the changes take effect.

June 12, 2026 — Featured News Appearing in American Banker on June 12, 2026, Ebrima Santos Sanneh talks to NCLC Senior Attorney Carla Sanchez-Adams about an advisory that could discourage banks from serving immigrant communities and small businesses operating in industries identified as higher risk by regulators.

June 8, 2026 — Featured News Appearing in Forbes Advisor on June 8, 2026, Kristen Grau talks to NCLC Senior Attorney April Kuehnhoff about how some renters are turning to security deposit installment plans to lower move-in expenses, and how a new NCLC report finds these products can come with terms and fees that make them more expensive than traditional security deposits. “Security deposit alternative products attempt to evade state laws designed to protect tenants.

June 29, 2026 — Press Release The so-called Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 9330) does not protect consumers. Instead, it fuels the affordability crisis by protecting payday loan apps that take hundreds of dollars a year from low-wage workers and by exempting these high-cost loans from federal and state protections.

June 25, 2026 — Article The Supreme Court ruling in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction, Inc., 608 U.S. __, 2026 WL 1686028 (June 11, 2026) is a notable step forward in helping consumer plaintiffs overcome a hidden but troublesome affirmative defense, when, as often happens, current consumer claims were left off schedules in a consumer’s prior bankruptcy. Previously, too often meritorious cases with these facts have been dismissed under the doctrine of bankruptcy judicial estoppel.

June 25, 2026 — Press Release Buy-Now-Pay-Later Lenders Must Be Licensed in Illinois and Clearly Disclose Costs to Borrowers WASHINGTON – Advocates applauded legislation signed today by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to protect people who take out Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) loans from hidden charges, unaffordable loans, purchase disputes, and other risks. Most BNPL loans are taken out by people with subprime credit scores and borrowers are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, female, and young.

June 25, 2026 — Press Release New Actions Targeted at Discouraging People from Challenging the Big Three Credit Reporting Companies WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched a new broadside against its own consumer complaint database, making it increasingly difficult for people to seek help from the CFPB and shifting resources to discouraging people from disputing errors on their credit reports.

June 24, 2026 — Press Release Legislative Package Includes NCLC Priorities to Address Housing Affordability and Supply, and Improve Access to Financing in Underserved Communities WASHINGTON – Today, Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act legislative package.

June 23, 2026 — Article It is not often that the federal government announces a policy change via the private company it benefits. But in March, a mortgage company called Better, and Coinbase, America’s largest crypto exchange, announced that Fannie Mae will extend its government guarantee to mortgages that use crypto-assets as collateral. The legitimization of crypto-assets, with minimal regulation, is something that has been top of mind for this Administration and the 119th Congress.

June 22, 2026 — Press Release Unprecedented Bids Could Create the First National Banks Dedicated to Predatory Lending WASHINGTON  – Today, more than 60 consumer, civil rights, labor, small business, legal services and community groups, and academics urged the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to hold public hearings and take a vote of the governors on the bids of two high-cost lenders, Enova International and Opportunity Financial (“OppFi”), to acquire national banks.