{"id":2322,"date":"2020-03-25T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2020-03-25T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:43:33","slug":"major-consumer-protections-announced-in-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicintegrity.org\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Major Consumer Protections Announced in Response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a href=\"https:\/\/library.nclc.org\/major-consumer-protections-announced-response-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i class=\"fas fa-newspaper\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> NCLC Digital Library | <span class=\"submitted-date\">March 24, 2020<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new NCLC Digital Library article lists a growing number of actions federal and state agencies and companies are taking to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic: suspensions on foreclosures, evictions, and terminations on telecommunications and utility service, elimination of interest and forbearance on student loan payments, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>This article, which will be updated as developments warrant, seeks to list the actions federal and state agencies as well as businesses are taking to aid consumers in light of the COVID-19 epidemic.  These actions include suspensions on foreclosures, evictions, and terminations on telecommunications and utility service, elimination of interest and forbearance on student loan payments, and more.  The article will also consider the impact of government-ordered closure or restrictions on court hearings and on non-essential businesses. <\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCLC Digital Library | March 24, 2020 A new NCLC Digital Library article lists a growing number of actions federal and state agencies and companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,16],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predatory-lending","tag-consumer-protection","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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