Maryland PIRG joins Virtual Consumer Advocacy Week

This week @MarylandPIRG is mtg with @ChrisVanHollen @SenatorCardin @RepRaskin @RepSarbanes @LeaderHoyer @RepAnthonyBrown urging them to #ProtectConsumers.

— Emily Warfield Scarr (@emilyscarr) September 22, 2022

This week, we’re joining consumer advocates from across the state and country calling on Congress to protect consumers as part of a virtual Consumer Advocacy Week. We’re urging Maryland legislators to:

🔎 Restore the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to protect consumers. Congress should authorize the FTC to stop violations of the law, ensure that deceptive players do not profit off their misconduct, restore the FTC’s ability to provide full remedies to harmed consumers.

💵 Protect consumers against payment fraud and theft.  Federal law provides important protections against unauthorized charges and errors on credit cards, bank accounts, and payment apps, but unfortunate gaps leave people exposed to theft of funds and fraud, especially when it comes to wire transfers on peer-to-peer payment apps.

📝 Pass common-sense limits on overdraft and non-sufficient fund fees. Overdraft fees are high fees that bear no relationship to the costs bank incur in covering overdrafts, can be charged an unlimited number of times, and can be near-impossible to avoid for people living paycheck to paycheck.

Read more about these priorities.