The topic of “junk fees” has been in the headlines, spurred by legislative action across various sectors. From regulations on credit card late fees to the Federal TICKET Act targeting concert event ...

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In February 2023, President Biden promised in his State of the Union address to take on what he called junk fees, credit card late fees, bank overdraft fees. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Johnson’s first attempt to pass a smaller funding bill failed on Thursday, but his second attempt succeeded on Friday after he dropped a demand from Trump to suspend the debt ceiling for two years.

The rule is one of the final pieces of President Joe Biden's wide-ranging crackdown on junk fees that drive up consumer costs without providing visible benefits. "We all know the experience of ...

ORLANDO, Fla — You know those annoying surprise junk fees you pay for things like concert tickets and hotel rooms? Well, those should soon be going away. Action 9 Consumer Investigator Jeff Deal ...

cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the total prices that are advertised to consumers. The rule, which becomes effective 120 days after it’s published ...

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized its “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees” (Junk Fees Rule) designed, the FTC noted, to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and mandate clear ...

The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an initiative it began in 2022 at the urging of the Biden administration to eliminate "junk fees" at hotels, short-term rentals and for tickets to ...