Travis Plunkett
Travis Plunkett
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Credit card lenders are luring consumers onto a minimum-payment treadmill. Consumers don't have the information they need to get off of it.
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I think the credit-card industry is reaching a tipping point,
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It's kind of like the wild west out there.
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Bankruptcy is an important safety net that families hit by unforeseen circumstances depend upon. The federal government should be bending over backwards to help Katrina's victims get back on their feet, not throwing up new barriers to bankruptcy.
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I think you're going to see a serious effort to include this provision either as a standalone bill or as relief legislation.
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We don't want this credit counseling requirement to be yet another hurdle that consumers who really need bankruptcy relief have to jump over to get it,
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What we have right now is exceedingly weak. It's virtually worthless.
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We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.
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We support credit counseling, especially if it's delivered early, and this is not early intervention. This is late intervention at the point where people have decided that bankruptcy is the only way for them. We just wonder whether this kind of late intervention will be helpful to too many people.