Too many borrowers are still stuck with predatory loans from the past, These predatory loans were unsustainable and unaffordable for a vast number
of vulnerable borrowers.
Unscrupulous lenders are always around to take advantage
of vulnerable borrowers.
Not exact matches
Lower interest rates, the report noted, could provide some cushion for debt servicing to
vulnerable firms with an interest cover between 1 and 1.75 - comprising around 15 percent
of the total debt
of top 500 listed
borrowers in fiscal 2015.
For consumer advocates, it was the culmination
of over a decade
of effort and a badly needed measure to protect
vulnerable borrowers.
Richard Cordray, director
of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, commented, «Subprime [auto]
borrowers may be more
vulnerable to predatory practices, so direct oversight
of their lending practices is essential.»
Finally, by allowing the size
of the Fed's balance sheet — formerly a crucial determinant
of the Fed's monetary policy stance — into a «free parameter,» the new set - up makes the Fed
vulnerable to the Treasury's importuning, if not to that
of other
borrowers.
Lenders claim this is acceptable, partly because they are
vulnerable without credit checks, and partly because the speed
of approval is an advantage for
borrowers.
According to Market Watch, some
of the most
vulnerable student loan
borrowers have been set up to fail.
There would be a great risk
of leaving millions
of borrowers vulnerable to poor quality servicing.
«High touch servicing» which would ensure that
vulnerable borrowers and
borrowers at risk
of defaulting get extra help in order to stay out
of default.
In recent years, Texas and other states investigated and prosecuted a number
of student loan industry abuses, winning settlements in the tens
of millions
of dollars for
vulnerable student
borrowers.
«They are trying to take the teeth out
of enforcement, and it's going to have a big impact on the most
vulnerable student
borrowers, who are being misled and bankrupted.»
«Taken together, these practices prevented some
of the most financially
vulnerable borrowers from securing some or all
of the benefits
of plans that were intended to ease the burden
of unaffordable student debt.»
We never want to put any
of our
borrowers in a
vulnerable position.
Instead
of just saying it's not easy to save
vulnerable borrowers, HUD has made the FHASecure program «successful» by counting any conventional loan applicant with at least one lung.
Long story short, there are plenty
of illegitimate «solutions» offered to
vulnerable and desperate student loan
borrowers that simply aim to scam someone out
of their money.
NCLC has been arguing for years that taxing these discharges is grossly unfair to some
of the most
vulnerable student loan
borrowers.
If you have been sued by Iver Capital for payday loan debt, then beware
of payday loan debt relief «companies» who often prey on
vulnerable borrowers already in debt.
That said, while 40 per cent
of high - ratio
borrowers opted for a 30 - year amortization over the last year, the vast majority
of these
borrowers could have qualified using a 25 - year amortization anyway, so this change should only affect marginal
borrowers who would have been the most
vulnerable to rate rises in future.
• Target
vulnerable borrowers to cash - out refinances offers when they know
borrowers are in need
of cash due to medical, unemployment or debt problems.