Category Archives: News

Addressing the Justice Gap for Poor New Yorkers Navigator’ Program Launches; Skeptics ‘Wait and See’ Nearly 4 Million Seriously Mentally Ill Still Without Insurance Step-by-step guide to enrolling in the NYSARC Pooled SNT for Medicaid spend-down

Heartbleed bug: What you need to know Data compilers’ secret scores have consumers pegged – fairly or not New Legislation Aims To Ensure Accurate Credit Reports, Provide Free Credit Scores CFPB Explainer: Compensating consumers for Bank of America’s illegal tactics … Continue reading →

New Job Openings Posted Examining Chairman Ryan’s Budget CFPB – Prepaid cards: Help design a new disclosure Bank of America Will Pay $228M in Forced-Insurance Accord A New Lens: Early Childhood Data from the Office of Civil Rights OTDA Proposed … Continue reading →

Cheat Sheet: What to Expect from CFPB on Payday Lending Fifty years later, Latinos still fighting for civil rights GAO Report – Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of the Wind Down of the Capital Purchase Program

Fair Hearing of the Month FDIC Issues List of Banks Examined for CRA Compliance CFPB: 2013 Office of Minority and Women Inclusion annual report What you need to know about EPIC – New York’s prescription drug program for seniors – … Continue reading →

Patients’ Rights in the Health Care System (Updated) Ten companies agree to cut ties with “title loan” business A Bill That Would Make Debit Cards as Safe as Credit Cards?

HRA Materials Updated As Fewer People Overdraft, Banks Are Raising Overdraft Fees The Coverage Gap: Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid Pathways to Extra Help – the Part D low income subsidy and how it can … Continue reading →

New Job Opening Posted Student loan debt strangles budgets The Secret Life of a Food Stamp NYS Budget Victories – “Spousal” and “Parental” Refusal Remain Intact, “Aid Continuing” Rights in Managed Care & MLTC