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Under some circumstances, the CFPB may issue final rules without a comment period before issuance. The CFPB may request comment on these rules and may later alter the rules, if necessary.
The Bureau is adjusting for inflation the maximum amount of each civil penalty within the Bureau’s jurisdiction, as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 and further amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.
The Bureau is amending the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau’s Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to reflect a change in the asset-size threshold for certain creditors to qualify for an exemption to the requirement to establish an escrow account for a higher-priced mortgage loan based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) for the 12-month period ending in November.
The CFPB is issuing a final rule amending the official commentary that interprets the requirements of the Bureau's Regulation C (Home Mortgage Disclosure) to reflect the asset-size exemption threshold for banks, savings associations, and credit unions based on the annual percentage change in the average of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
The Board and the Bureau are finalizing amendments to the commentary for
the agencies’ regulations that implement the Consumer Leasing Act which affect
the calculation method for determining the annual adjustment of the dollar
threshold for exempt consumer leases and set the 2017 exemption threshold
amount. Based on the CPI-W in effect as
of June 1, 2016, the exemption threshold will remain at $54,600 through 2017.
The Agencies' rules exempted, among other loan types, transactions of $25,000 or less, and required that this loan amount be adjusted annually based on any annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) amended TILA by requiring that the dollar threshold for exempt consumer credit transactions be adjusted annually by the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
announces that the ceiling on allowable charges under section 612(f) of the
Fair Credit Reporting Act will remain unchanged at $12.00, effective for 2017.
On Oct. 5, 2016, the Bureau released a final rule to correct certain clerical and non-substantive corrections to errors it has identified in Regulation E. Prior amendments to Regulation E, which became effective in 2013, provided new protections to consumers who send remittance transfers to other consumers or businesses in a foreign country.
The Bureau is finalizing comprehensive consumer protections for prepaid accounts under Regulations E and Z, including tailored provisions governing disclosures, limited liability and error resolution, periodic statements, and the posting of account agreements. The final rule also regulates overdraft credit features that may be offered in conjunction with prepaid accounts.
This notice is issued pursuant to section 706(e) of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and concerns the new Uniform Residential Loan Application and the collection of expanded Home Mortgage Disclosure Act information about ethnicity and race in 2017.
