Regulatory Compliance, Financial Implications 17 Jan 2025 compliance, regulations, banking, administrative practice and procedure, inflation adjustment, penalties, law enforcement, claims, postal service, credit, fraud, civil penalties, privacy, banks, crime, seizures and forfeitures, infants and children

⚖️Updates on Postal Service Civil Penalties Effective January 2025

This document updates postal regulations by implementing inflation adjustments to civil monetary penalties that may be imposed under consumer protection and mailability provisions enforced by the Postal Service pursuant to the Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act and the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, as well as the civil monetary penalty that may be imposed by the Postal Service for false claims and statements under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act. These adjustments are required under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. This document includes the adjustments for 2025 for the statutory civil monetary penalties subject to the 2015 Act and all necessary updates authorized by the 2015 Act for regulatory civil monetary penalties.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 10 Jan 2025 consumer protection, banking, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, consumer financial protection, mortgages, credit, home improvement, cfpb, residential property, advertising, regulation z, banks, national banks, truth-in-lending, pace financing, credit unions, mortgage, savings associations

💼New PACE Financing Regulations

Section 307 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA) directs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) to prescribe ability-to-repay rules for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and to apply the civil liability provisions of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) for violations. PACE financing is financing to cover the costs of home improvements that results in a tax assessment on the real property of the consumer. In this final rule, the CFPB implements EGRRCPA section 307 and amends Regulation Z to address how TILA applies to PACE transactions.

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Financial Assistance, Regulatory Requirements 3 Jan 2025 compliance, usda, business and industry, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, grant programs-housing and community development, mortgages, flood insurance, rural areas, credit, environmental impact statements, conflict of interests, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, home improvement, fair housing, loan programs, rural housing

🏠USDA Updates Rules for Manufactured Housing Financing Options

The Rural Housing Service (RHS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is amending the current regulations for the Single Family Housing (SFH) Direct Loan Program and the SFH Guaranteed Loan Program. The intent of this final rule is to allow the Agency to give borrowers increased purchase options within a competitive market and increase adequate housing along with an enhanced customer experience with the SFH programs.

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