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Consumer Protection

 

Current Campaigns

Defeating the Exelon Merger

New Jersey's ratepayers shouldn't buy Exelon's deal to create the largest, most powerful energy company in the nation. Read more.

Identity Theft

Identity theft is a terrible and growing problem, largely because your personal information is a hot commodity. If companies who gather, share and sell your data jealously guarded it, perhaps their activities would be harmless. Read more.

Rent-to-Own

For years the Rent-to-Own (RTO) industry has preyed upon low-income consumers by selling goods on credit at inflated prices, with triple-digit interest rates and excessive fees. These practices are illegal under New Jersey’s consumer protection laws governing credit sales, which cap interest rates at 30 percent and provide other protections. Read more.

Product Safety

Product manufacturers have recalled an estimated 25 million dangerous toys, 60 million pounds of contaminated pet food, 1 million tubes of tainted toothpaste and 1 million pounds of spinach.  Congress needs to take action to protect consumers from dangerous produts.  Read more.

Overview

Powerful commercial interests, such as banks, insurance companies, phone companies and cable companies, wield their massive capital and influence to shape the marketplace to their advantage. Individual consumers have little power to affect the way business is done, and suffer with excessive fees, poor service and few remedies as a result. NJPIRG stands up for consumers on a broad range of issues, working to make sure that the marketplace provides the protections individual consumers can’t effectively bargain for.



 

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