News

2021

January

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• Five ways to protect yourself from housing scams. Housing scams are everywhere. Three common scams are lender impersonation scams, foreclosure relief scams and rental scams. Here are five ways you can protect yourself from them.

• Yellen outlines economic priorities; Republicans draw battle lines. Janet L. Yellen, the Treasury secretary nominee, said at her confirmation hearing that the U.S. economy needed more help to get through the pandemic.

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• Joe Biden pledges to address pay, systemic racism. A key pledge in President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to build the nation “back better’’ is to be bolder in addressing the systemic racism that has hindered the advancement of Black

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• Biden choices for CFPB, SEC pivot to robust enforcement. President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Rohit Chopra, the former student loan ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to lead the consumer finance agency. Biden will tap Gary Gensler, the former chairman of

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• Federal rent relief is coming. Thestimulus law passed by Congress in late December includes $25 billion in rental relief funds, with an estimated $2.6 billion coming to California. Here are some things you should know about that money.

• La pérdida de empleos por COVID-19 agravará la falta de vivienda en Los Ángeles para 2023, señala un nuevo informe. Las pérdidas masivas de empleos causadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 en todo el país, dejarán a decenas de miles de trabajadores con bajos salarios sin techo durante los

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• Biden set to call for big spending on stimulus and vaccines. Money to complete $2,000 direct payments to individuals and aid to small businesses and local and state governments, components that Mr. Biden has stressed in recent weeks, will be part of the initial package, Mr. Deese

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• $1 fines from CFPB were common under Trump. That'll change.. It’s a virtual certainty that President-elect Joe Biden will replace President Trump’s appointee as CFPB director, Kathy Kraninger, with someone more focused on defending consumers than business interests.

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• Options for struggling landlords. Critical eviction moratoriums don’t offer much relief for mom-and-pop landlords who still have to pay to keep their buildings operating.

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• A Democratic Senate could help advance Biden’s agenda. Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate, giving them majorities in both houses of Congress and the presidency. Here's a look at some top agenda items. Economy: Biden has laid

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• College students could collect $1,800 in stimulus payments. A new tax season means many college students or young adults not yet covering all their own expenses could get a total of $1,800 in stimulus relief. Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,

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• What Is a charge-off?. While a charge-off may sound like a solution to an unpaid debt, it indicates that your creditor determined that you are unlikely to repay a delinquent account. Delinquent credit accounts are subject to charge-off after 120

2020

December

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• Aprobaron nuevos cheques de estímulo; ¿cuánto recibirá y cuándo?. El presidente Trump firmó un proyecto de ley de gastos de 2.3 billones de dólares —a pesar de sus propias objeciones tardías— que financia al gobierno e incluye $900.000 millones

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• House passes bill to increase stimulus checks to $2,000. The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday voted to pass a bill to increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000, with 275 members voting for the bill and 134 voting against it. The bill received the needed two-thirds

• Dems, Republicans trade places in their economic outlook. The economy, which continues its slow healing from the pandemic recession, actually isn’t all that different than it was in the fall. But there has been a change in what increasingly determines opinions

• What the new COVID relief package means for your money. A second wave of federal coronavirus relief totaling $900 billion could begin flowing to millions of Americans as soon as the year’s end, nearly nine months after Congress passed the original pandemic relief package

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• More than 190,000 ceiling fans are recalled after blades detach. More than 190,000 ceiling fans sold at The Home Depot have been recalled after it was found that their blades could detach while spinning, causing injuries and property damage. The Hampton Bay 54-inch Mara Indoor/Outdoor

• How your personal finances can survive a pandemic. The economic fallout from shutdowns and entire industries collapsing has wreaked continual havoc on the personal finances of many Americans. Though those at the upper end of the income ladder may have seen their portfolios

• Trump signs pandemic relief bill after unemployment aid lapses. After calling the measure a “disgrace,” President Trump unexpectedly signed the bill, extending expanded unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, and keeping the government open. But the signing also came after two critical

• 5 claves del nuevo paquete de ayuda económica firmado por Trump. El plan bipartidista contempla fondos contra la pandemia, apoyos a escuelas, entre otros.