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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.
- Medicare drug plans info often wrong
- Regional carriers’ wireless alternatives
- Five ways to destroy your credit
- Virtual checkbook: The next generation
- Retailers want a place in your wallet
- Fed credit card report conclusions questioned
- 10 needed changes to rules and fees
- ‘Orwellian’ college database idea widely assailed
- Citizen rules eased for Medicare
- Low grades for proposed college student database
- Drivers warned that ‘insurance score’ can cost them
- AARP: Who’s guarding vulnerable from court guardians?
- Medical costs expected to jump
- Price discrimination metes out rough justice
- Debunking myths about couples and credit
- Debt collectors play rough
- Study documents Tylenol liver toxicity
- Politics deflated California’s ‘Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights’
- Disgruntled customers fight back on Internet
- Prying into your pills: Proper or not?
- ID thief finds easy money hard to resist
- Fat people not more jolly, study says
- Backyard fireworks injuries on rise
- Internet phone pressures Bell-cos to lower rates
- Anti-penny push provokes passions
- Poll: Founding fathers’ values still strong
- Northeast flood victims may be uninsured
- Lawsuit claims bureaus’ practice lowers credit score
- MasterCard criticized on bank fees by Europe
- Medicare proof test threatens coverage for many
- Lawmakers: phone records database incomplete
- Fed hints end is near for rate increases
- Google introduces online ‘wallet’ payment system
- Stolen laptop with veterans’ info recovered
- Verizon Wireless will pro-rate early termination fees
- How organic is organic milk?
- Rising interest rates take bite out of home sales
- U.S. motorists put pollution in overdrive
- Housing out of reach in many markets
- Boomer inheritances shrink
- Disney stationery animates a postal spat
- High-tech ATMs make image receipts of deposits
- ACORN mobilizes antipoverty protests
- Exchange fees and foreign travelers
- Retirement planning more complex than ever
- Study looks at income, lifestyle since 1901
- California law allows option to return used cars
- Avoid surprises at closing table
- U.S. secretly tracks global bank transfers
- NY State legislature bans unfair credit card ‘universal default’
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