Attorneys General Seek to Stop Debt Trap Lending
3 min readApr 21, 2021
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In a rare form of bipartisan agreement, a group of 25 Attorneys General (AGs) sent a letter today to Congressional leadership urging it to “use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to rescind the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) “True Lender” rule in order to “safeguard states’ fundamental sovereign rights to protect their citizens from financial abuse.”
The bipartisan letter included the AG in Arkansas, where voters approved a 17% interest rate cap on payday and installment loans in 2010, as well as AGs from Nebraska, South…
