State responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are changing fast. For all of us, it’s a very uncertain time. Now that unemployment claims have topped 6.65 million, governments are trying to lessen the financial pain for consumers already struggling to pay their debts.…

This morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) former director Richard Cordray published a whitepaper on Medium, addressed to current director Kathleen Kraninger, warning the CFPB to pay attention to the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. His comments include sections about debt collection,…