The
Federal Reserve Board, the
Office of Thrift Supervision, and the
National Credit Union Administration collectively are proposing several new provisions intended to protect consumers against unfair or deceptive acts or practices with respect to consumer credit card accounts and overdraft services for deposit accounts. Proposed changes include ending:
(1) Unfair time constraints for consumers to make payments;
(2) Unfair allocation of payments among balances with different interest rates;
(3) Unfair application of increased annual percentage rates to outstanding balances;
(4) Unfair fees for exceeding the credit limit solely because of a hold placed on an account;
(5) Unfair balance computation method;
(6) Unfair financing of security deposits and fees for issuance or availability of credit; and
(7) Deceptive firm offers of credit.
These regulatory agencies are soliciting public comment on these proposed rule changes. To enable ordinary citizens to have a voice in this rule making process, Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray is
collecting comments which he will forward to these agencies before the August 4th deadline. The goal is to collect 10,000 before the deadline is reached.
06-09-2008, 03:18 PM
Your Say on Credit Card Reforms
