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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.

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2007

April

Apr 07, 2007

• Headlines | Ex-MBNA cardholders face new minimum fee
• Headlines | Would mortgage suitability standard protect loan applicants?
• Headlines | Credit scores for sale

Apr 06, 2007

• Headlines | Lodging effective consumer complaints
• Headlines | Lemon owners can get a sweet result
• Headlines | Tipping stoves prompt safety concerns
• Headlines | Legal case is key to VOIP viability

Apr 05, 2007

• Headlines | For many, tax refund spells ‘fun’
• Headlines | Personal data at risk in lost IRS laptops

Apr 04, 2007

• Headlines | Tax friendly places: Income, sales and property taxes vary widely
• Headlines | Public housing kicks smoking habit
• Headlines | Predatory lenders targeted moderate-income homeowners

Apr 03, 2007

• Headlines | Trillions in debt, can middle class hang on?
• Headlines | FCC approves phone record privacy rules
• Headlines | Gulf insurance cost becomes 3rd storm

Apr 02, 2007

• Headlines | Red flags when selling a car online
• Headlines | Cell phones geared to ages 8-16
• Headlines | Some funds still let you start small
• Headlines | Banks branch out to customer referrals
• Headlines | Study finds more air delays, lost bags

Apr 01, 2007

• Headlines | Product safety under fire

March

Mar 31, 2007

• Headlines | Lack of escrow accounts hurts subprime borrowers

Mar 30, 2007

• Headlines | Buying foreclosure homes: risks or rewards?
• Headlines | House panel backs bill to restrain Fannie, Freddie
• Headlines | TJMaxx data theft is largest ever

Mar 29, 2007

• Headlines | Most credit card bills getting paid on time
• Headlines | Credit card foreign fees get travelers
• Headlines | Work for Uncle Sam until ‘tax freedom day’
• Headlines | Spring cleaning time for finances

Mar 28, 2007

• Headlines | How to fend off a foreclosure
• Headlines | Catalog ‘credit’ card scheme still lives
• Headlines | FDIC backs efforts to regulate subprime lenders
• Headlines | States eye ways to help subprime mortgage holders

Mar 27, 2007

• Headlines | Cyber-attacks ‘more aggressive than ever’
• Headlines | Itemizing doesn’t save much on cellphone bill
• Headlines | Ordinary customers flagged as terrorists

Mar 26, 2007

• Headlines | Internet: From poky to lickety-split
• Headlines | Delivering change at the Post Office
• Headlines | Foreclosure wave bears down on immigrants

Mar 25, 2007

• Headlines | Gift cards that shrink stink
• Headlines | Convincing collector it has wrong number

Mar 24, 2007

• Headlines | FTC lacks authority to stop mortgage trigger marketing

Mar 23, 2007

• Headlines | Federal Reserve faulted for inaction on mortgages
• Headlines | Take action if you can’t pay your mortgage
• Headlines | Five money rules for kids

Mar 22, 2007

• Headlines | Not filing your taxes is the worst option

Mar 21, 2007

• Headlines | The debt collectors won’t stop

Mar 20, 2007

• Headlines | Teens targeted with cellphone marketing

Mar 19, 2007

• Headlines | Cyber-attacks ‘more aggressive than ever’
• Headlines | FHA comes to the aid of the credit challenged

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