It’s National Consumer Protection Week and WREG is always trying to help you save money and avoid scams and ripoffs. So, we ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

In the weeks since President Trump's return to office, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of conservatives, landed in the crosshairs of Elon Musk's DOGE, or Department of ...

• New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $250,000 from MoneyGram International for failing to follow consumer protection laws and jeopardizing customers' money transfers • The settlement ...

In 2026, New York strengthens consumer protections with new laws. The FAIR Business Practices Act expands the Attorney ...

Zander does a public records search, alerting users to anyone attempting to change their address with the United States Postal Service, which can be a sign of fraud. Lost wallet assistance helps users ...

The Trump and Musk administration is continuing its vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal agency that has returned more than $20 billion to Americans who have been ...

Restoring full funding and removing Vought would allow the bureau to do the job Congress assigned it.

Re “‘I don’t think this is the right thing to do’: Bid for new consumer-protection unit prompts turf war with DA” (Jan. 12): The proposal by San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer to create a ...

On March 24, 2025, Senate Bill 754 (pdf) was signed into law amending the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA), the Commonwealth’s general consumer protection law. The VCPA was originally passed in ...