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Archived Actions
These actions are historical (archived). They can be viewed, but no longer taken.
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Nursing home arbitration petition
Date: Tue, December 19, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under the Trump administration, is looking to repeal a recently passed rule that lets nursing home residents harmed by mistreatment and illegal practices sue in court.
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Demand your right to sue companies like Equifax!
Date: Wed, September 27, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released a rule to restore your right to join together with other consumers to hold financial companies accountable in court—which Consumer Action fought for and supports. Unfortunately, the Senate is considering repealing the rule this week.
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Don’t destroy my Consumer Financial Protection Bureau!
Date: Tue, July 18, 2017
This week marks the sixth birthday of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Yet, some in Congress have marked the agency for dead. Let your Senators know that an attack on the CFPB is an attack on the people who put them in office.
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Protect contact lens consumer rights
Date: Mon, June 12, 2017
It's been 13 years since the Fairness for Contact Lens Consumers Act became law, requiring optometrists to provide prescriptions to patients so they can shop around for better prices. Yet, Consumer Action found that close to one-third of consumers are not being given their prescriptions following eye exams. Tell Congress to make eye doctors follow the law!
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Fight attacks on consumer protection!
Date: Mon, February 06, 2017
The new administration has announced plans to damage the Dodd-Frank financial protection law and cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Your dissent is crucial.
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National Action
Keep shareholder reports accessible to all
Date: Tue, August 23, 2016
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new regulation to eliminate the current default requirement for mutual funds shareholder reports in paper form. This change could disadvantage millions of investors – the majority of whom have already expressed a preference for paper-based investment materials.
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How can student loan servicing be improved?
Date: Mon, July 11, 2016
The U.S. Department of Education is working with other regulators, students, colleges and advocacy groups like Consumer Action, to institute best practices for supporting the more than 40 million Americans with student loans. Now it’s your turn to tell the Department of Education what needs to be improved about repaying your student loans. Deadline July 15!
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Strong privacy rules for internet service providers
Date: Fri, May 06, 2016
Sign on to this commment letter to the Federal Communications Commission to help ensure that consumers have control over how and whether their data is used and shared by their broadband providers. Deadline is May 27.
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Help end pay-TV box rental fees
Date: Mon, February 29, 2016
Send an email to your elected representatives right now in support of the FCC plan to open the set top box market and let you stop paying cable and satellite box leasing fees.
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National Action
Preserve Lifeline for ALL in-need households!
Date: Fri, December 18, 2015
Don't hang up on Lifeline subscribers! new recommendations would limit Lifeline eligibility only to households who receive food stamps (SNAP) and would rely on an inconvenient and possibly costly voucher payment system to provide benefits. SIGN OUR PETITION to the FCC.