The Consumer Justice & General Clinic provides brief services and representation to low-income consumers facing a wide variety of issues, including debt collection, student loans, credit reporting, predatory lending, identity theft, and consumer scams.

Attorneys and advocates can provide the following types of assistance:

• Defending consumers on debt-collection lawsuits
• Protecting consumers’ assets by contesting wage garnishments, bank levies, and other creditor liens.
• Educating consumers through materials and outreach about deceptive, unfair, illegal, and/or predatory consumer programs and practices.
• Assisting borrowers to discharge their federal student loans or enter into more affordable repayments agreement.
• Defending consumers in disputes regarding repayment of private student loans.
• Financial assessments to help consumers develop the best priorities for their own finances.
• Correcting credit reporting errors.
• Assisting victims of identity theft.
• Defending and litigating against operations that victimize non-English speaking immigrant populations.
• Reducing barriers to housing (i.e., bad credit keeping you out of housing)
• Assisting with storage unit disputes
• Providing support for consumers whose cars have been towed

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