{"id":25067,"date":"2023-06-08T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/?p=25067"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:17:31","slug":"ncl-ceo-urges-congress-to-end-companies-addiction-to-junk-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/ncl-ceo-urges-congress-to-end-companies-addiction-to-junk-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL CEO urges Congress to end companies\u2019 addiction to junk fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>June 8, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Melody Merin, melodym@nclnet.org, 202-207-2831<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; National Consumers League (NCL) CEO Sally Greenberg today urged Congress to do more to rein in predatory junk fees that plague millions of consumers and honest businesses. In testimony before the\u00a0Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/2023\/6\/protecting-consumers-from-junk-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Consumer Protection Subcommittee<\/span><\/a><span class=\"normaltextrun\"> on the need for federal action to rein in predatory junk fees, Greenberg urged Senators to support multiple pieces of consumer protection legislation, including President Biden\u2019s Junk Fee Prevention Act.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cAmerican companies are addicted to junk fees,\u201d said NCL CEO Greenberg. \u201cThese fees cause significant economic harm, especially to historically marginalized and economically vulnerable communities. <\/span>Junk fees harm honest businesses, too, as consumers\u2019 patronage is unfairly directed away from companies with the best price, quality, convenience, and honest practices to those with pricing that is higher, less transparent, and more deceptive.<span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201d<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"eop\">Greenberg urged Congress to support bills like the Junk Fee Prevention Act, which would <\/span>rein in some of the worst offenders when it comes to junk fees; the Consumer Protection Remedies Act, which would fully restore the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s ability to obtain monetary and other relief for consumers; and Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR Act), which would prohibit a pre-dispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u201cThe Biden Administration and agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Transportation, and Federal Trade Commission have taken steps to address the scourge of junk fees,\u201d said Greenberg. \u201cCongress can and should do more to support these initiatives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Greenberg-Junk-Fee-Testimony-06-08-2023FINAL-AS-SUBMITTED-1.pdf\"><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Read Greenberg\u2019s full testimony here.<\/span><span class=\"eop\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Consumers League (NCL) CEO Sally Greenberg today urged Congress to do more to rein in predatory junk fees that plague millions of consumers and honest businesses. In testimony before the\u00a0Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s Consumer Protection Subcommittee on the need for federal action to rein in predatory junk fees, Greenberg urged Senators to support multiple pieces of consumer protection legislation, including President Biden\u2019s Junk Fee Prevention Act.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[14,315],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25067"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27093,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25067\/revisions\/27093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}