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Consumer Protections
Fact Sheet: Protect Savings for People with Disabilities
The ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) program eases the financial strains faced by individuals with disabilities by allowing them to open tax-free savings accounts...
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Retirement Security
Equitable Access to Secure Choice
Illinois is among the first states in the nation to pass retirement savings legislation in the form of Secure Choice. With the implementation of Secure Choice, workers in...
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Asset Poverty
Prosperity Now 2018 Illinois Scorecard
Prosperity Now’s annual Scorecard provides a comprehensive look at families’ financial health across the United States. It assesses 50 states and the District of...
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Car Title Lending
2018 Car Title Loan Legislative Resources
Car title loans prey on Illinoisans with crippling interest rates as high as 360%. These loans trap consumers in debt they can’t repay, and cause thousands every year...
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Children's Savings Accounts
Building Brighter Futures: Children’s Savings Accounts in Illinois
Building Brighter Futures: Children’s Savings Accounts in Illinois, a report from Heartland Alliance’s Social IMPACT Research Center and IABG, has found that...
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Consumer Protections
Fact Sheet: Illinois needs a Strong CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reins in predatory practices in mortgage lending, student loans, credit cards, debt collection, payday and title lending and...
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Children's Savings Accounts
Children’s Savings Accounts – Legislative Resources
All children should have the opportunity to thrive. A Universal Children’s Savings Account (CSA) program provides both the hope and the means to expand educational and...
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Consumer Protections
Wage Assignments: Know your Rights
Wage assignments are a way that some lenders, particularly payday lenders, take a portion of a borrower’s wages to collect on a loan in default. As of January 1, 2017,...
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Asset Building Tools
ABLE Program Fact Sheet
Millions of individuals with disabilities rely on public benefits for health care, food, housing, and income. Previously, a means or asset test on Social Security Income...
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