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The JumpStart
Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve
the financial literacy of young adults.
New: Now you can get consumer
information from the FTC two ways: Click on TEXT or PDF for
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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