Fair Credit Billing Act - FCBA
Fair weather. Fair Isaac. Fair is wheel.
So...what's another Fair?
A U.S. federal law, put into effect in 1974, meant to provide protections against unfair billing practices, particularly by credit card companies. It includes rules against charging for items not received, or making mathematical errors in computing the bill.
(Which might not seem like landmark stuff, but regular people didn't start using credit cards regularly until fairly recently. Thus Congress not getting around to this law until the mid-1970s.)
The law also provides some other regulations related to credit card billing, such as a stipulation that bills must be sent at least 14 days before payment is due. The Federal Trade Commission was put in charge of enforcing the provisions of the act.
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act fair debt collection That doesn't sound like a euphemism
for the guys with the baseball bats who knocked gently
on your door and talk with you quietly about your
poker losses there Well that whole goodfellas thing became such
a problem that the feds had to get involved in
established rules as to how far those guys with the
baseball bats could go and they came up with the
following a they can't use them the baseball bats to
hit your knee caps anyway if you don't pay your
bills be they have to listen to your pushback on
like a safe space is literally safe Space is not
like the kind of uc berkeley so they can't call
you at work and castle you thereabout bills if you
tell them not to and see they can't call you
at home in the middle of the night or bang
on your door at two a m and wake the
kids and terrify you about your bills that you owe
you owe well basically this act which became law in
nineteen seventy seven established the notion that even if you
really are a total deadbeat somebody who was stupid enough
to loan you money like you don't pay your bills
you promised to pay them and you just don't you
don't pam back You don't care about your honor self
respect you're a deadbeat but the feds took the perspective
that wealth Somebody was stupid enoughto loan you that money
in the first place and they can on li yu's
quote fair means unquote to collect the money you promised
to pay them back So what's fair Well this is
fair and this is not fair They're not they're they're
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