17 02, 2020

Assessments are a Debt Subject to the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act

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The collection of consumer debts is regulated both by the federal law under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the “FDCPA”), and state law under the Florida Consumer Collections Practices Act (the “FCCPA”). The FDCPA and the FCCPA are not identical, but the FCCPA specifically acknowledges the continued applicability of the FDCPA. This means coming

3 06, 2019

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Proposes Regulations to Modernize the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

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Congress delegated the authority to issue substantive rules interpreting the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) to The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Recently, CFPB proposed new rules modifying the FDCPA.

The proposed rules seek to clarify and modernize many of the FDCPA’s requirements to bring it up