The JumpStart
Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve
the financial literacy of young adults.
New: Now you can get consumer
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written information or click on RAM or MP3
for an audio file that features one minute of related information
from Shirley Rooker, director of WTOP's Call for Action.
Consumer
Information
- 66 Ways to Save Money
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- A Consumer's Guide to E-Payments
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Ads Promising Debt Relief May
Be Offering Bankruptcy [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Advance-Fee Loan Scams Campaign
[TEXT]
- Automatic Debit Scams
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoiding Credit and Charge Card
Fraud [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Card Fraud (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Billed for Merchandise You Never
Received? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Bogus July 1 Email Exposed: The
Real Deal on Your Credit File Privacy [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Building a Better Credit Record
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Erase Bad Credit (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Cancellation of Private Mortgage
Insurance: Federal Law May Save You Hundreds of Dollars
Each Year [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Choosing and Using Credit Cards
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Card Interest Rates (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Cosigning a Loan [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit, ATM and Debit Cards:
What to do if They're Lost or Stolen [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit and Divorce [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit and Your Consumer Rights
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Too Good Credit History (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Credit and Debit Card Blocking
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Card Loss Protection Offers:
They're the Real Steal [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Card Protection Scams
(audio) [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Credit Insurance:
Is It for You? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Repair: Getting Back in
the Black Campaign [TEXT]
- Credit Repair: Self-Help May
Be Best [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Rules Bookmark
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Scoring [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Easy Credit? Not So Fast. The
Truth About Advance Fee Loan Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- E-Checks (Electronic
Check Conversion) [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Electronic Banking [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Equal Credit Opportunity
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fair Credit Billing
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), as amended (12/03)
[PDF]
- Your Credit Report (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Fair Credit Reporting Act, as
amended Campaign [TEXT]
- Fair Debt Collection
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Your Fair Debt Collection Rights
(audio) [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Fake Credit Reports: Cashing in on Your Personal
Information [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fiscal Fitness: Choosing a Credit
Counselor [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Getting Credit: What You Need to Know About Your
Credit [TXT]
[PDF]
- Getting Credit When You're Over
62 [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Getting Purse-onal
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Gold and Platinum Cards
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guide to the
Federal Trade Commission [TEXT]
[PDF]
- High-Rate, High-Fee Loans (HOEPA/Section
32 Mortgages) [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Hoax Targets Elderly African
Americans [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Equity Credit Lines
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Equity Loans: Borrowers
Beware! [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How To Dispute Credit Report
Errors [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Identity Crisis... What to Do
If Your Identity Is Stolen [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Identity Theft: Identity Thieves
Can Ruin Your Good Name [TEXT]
[PDF]
- ID Theft: What's It All About?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Identity Theft Video News Release
[length: 2 mins, 30 sec]
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- ID Theft Web Site [TEXT]
- ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen
To Your Good Name [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Protect Your Personal Information
(audio)[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Identity Theft (audio)[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Knee Deep in Debt [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Look Before You Lease
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Looking for the Best Mortgage?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Making a Buck: Employment, Work-at-Home
and Credit Information [TEXT]
- Mortgage Discrimination
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Mortgage Servicing: Making Sure Your Payments
Count [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Mortgage Servicing: Make Sure Your Payments Count!
(Bookmark) [PDF]
- Need a Loan? Think Twice About
Using Your Home as Collateral [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Negative Credit Can Squeeze a
Job Search [TEXT]
[PDF]
- New ID? Bad IDea: File Segregation
Exposed [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Out of Work? How to Deal with
Creditors [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Payday Loans = Costly Cash
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Pretexting: Your Personal Information
Revealed [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy Choices for Your Personal
Financial Information [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: Tips for Protecting
Your Personal Information [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: What You Do Know Can
Protect You [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Putting Your Home on the Loan
Line Can Be Risky Business [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Ready, Set... Credit
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Reverse Mortgages [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Secured Credit Card Marketing
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Shopping for a Home Equity Loan?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Shopping for a Home Equity Loan?
Bookmark [PDF]
- Take Charge of Your Credit
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Credit Practices Rule
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Top Ten Dot Cons: Consumer Information
[TEXT]
- Understanding Vehicle Financing
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Utility Credit [TEXT]
[PDF]
Business
Information
- Advertising Consumer Leases
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Consumer Reports: What Insurers
Should Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Using Consumer Reports: What
Landlords Need to Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the Credit Practices
Rule [TEXT]
- Credit Reports: What Information
Providers Need To Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fair Credit Reporting Act, Campaign
as amended [TEXT]
- Getting Business Credit
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- How to Advertise Consumer Credit:
Complying with the Law [TEXT]
- How to Write Readable Credit
Forms [TEXT]
- Information Compromise and the Risk of Identity
Theft: Guidance for Your Business [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Safeguarding Customers' Personal
Information: A Requirement for Financial Institutions
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Using Consumer Reports: What
Employers Need to Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
Rules
and Acts
- Consumer Leasing Act
[TEXT]
- Credit Repair Organizations Act
[TEXT]
- Electronic Fund Transfer Act
[TEXT]
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
[TEXT]
- Fair Credit Billing Act
[PDF]
- Fair Credit Reporting Act - Home
Page [TEXT]
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA),
as amended (12/03) [PDF]
- Fair Debt Collection Practices
Act - Home Page [TEXT]
- Fair Debt Collection Practices
Act (FDCPA), as amended [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Improvement Act of 1991 [TEXT]
- Home Ownership and Equity Protection
Act [TEXT]
- Identity Theft and Assumption
Deterrence Act [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Notices of Rights and Duties
under the FCRA (July 1, 1997) [TEXT]
- Information about the Opt-Out
Provisions of the FCRA [TEXT]
- Truth in Lending Act
[TEXT]
Staff
Comments and Letters
- FCRA Staff Opinion Letters
[TEXT]
- FDCPA Staff Opinion Letters
[TEXT]
- FDCPA Annual Report To Congress
(June, 1999) [TEXT]
- FDCPA Annual Report To Congress
(March 19, 1999) [TEXT]
[PDF]
Business
Resources
En
Español
- ¿Buscando la hipoteca más favorable?
[TEXT]
Looking for the Best Mortgage?
- Cobranza Imparcial de Deudas
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Fair Debt Collection
- ¿Crédito Fácil? ¡No Tan Rápido!
La Verdad sobre los Créditos con Cargo Adelantado
[TEXT]
Easy Credit? Not So Fast! The Truth About Advance-Fee Loans
- El Crédito y sus Derechos como
Consumidor [TEXT]
[PDF]
Credit and Your Consumer Rights
- Endeudado hasta el cuello [TEXT]
[PDF]
Knee Deep In Debt
- Préstamos con Garantía Hipotecaria:
¡Atención Prestatarios! [TEXT]
[PDF]
Home Equity Loans: Borrowers Beware!
- Robo de Identidad [TEXT]
[PDF]
Algo malo puede pasarle a su buen nombre
- Robo de Identidad - Sistematice
los pasos a seguir [PDF]
Chart Your Course of Action
- Robo de Identidad - Instrucciones
para Completar la Declaración Jurada de Robo de Identidad
[PDF]
Instructions for Completing the ID Theft Affidavit
- Seguro de Crédito: ¿Es para Usted?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Credit Insurance: Is It for You?
- ¿Sin trabajo? Cómo Lidiar con
los Acreedores [TEXT]
[PDF]
Out of Work? How to Deal with Creditors
- Su Información Privada: Lo Que
Usted Sabe Lo Puede Proteger [TEXT]
Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You
- Su Información Privada: Sugerencias
para Proteger su Información Personal [TEXT]
Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information
- Utilizar su Hogar Como Garatiá para Un
Préstamo es Arriesgado
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Putting Your Home on the Loan Line Is Risky Business
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