Nearly $30 Billion in Punitive Fees

How banks and credit card companies bilk consumers instead of offering better service

Andy Spears
3 min readJan 26, 2022

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Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a request for information on late and junk fees charged by banks and credit cards. The move is an effort to begin the process of designing protections for consumers in the credit and banking…

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .