John Gliha
May 23rd 2009
Credit Card Holders Bill Of Rights Act of 2009
I have recently received many inquiries about this latest federal amendment to the Truth and Lending Act known as
“The Credit Cardholder’s Bill of Rights of 2009”. This amendment is
scheduled to become effective in June of 2010. Many people want to
know what this means for credit card holders and this is my opinion after analyzing the industry since 1993 and
carefully reviewing the new legislation.
This new law amends sections of the already existing Truth and Lending Act. Many attorneys should know whether or not they have a chance to obtain a remedy
for their clients under this Act in the past. The reason I say this is
because the amendments include absolutely no penalty provisions, and that leaves the existing penalty provisions to
enforce the new legislation. I will summarize them for you; while the
new legislation appears to be pro-consumer at first read...
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