THE CITY
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has paused the collection of medical and student debt owed to New York State, ordered evictions halted and put a 90-day stay on mortgage payments and foreclosures for owners facing financial hardship.
But
one key function of the legal system is chugging along unabated amid
the coronavirus crisis: the collection of private debts through New
York’s courts.
This
week, as the governor ordered most court operations to stop, creditors
of all kinds kept filing actions against people and businesses, court
records show.
In New York County alone, the docket between Monday and Friday shows dozens of debt cases.
Among
them: a debt buyer seeking a $35,826.73 judgment against a Manhattan
man, a bank going after a $110,000 loan to a Little Italy pharmacy and a
request to enforce a confession of judgment on a $96,247.56 cash advance to a Bronx medical case management group.
Sarah Ludwig, co-director of the New Economy Project,
said her group has been flooded with calls to its legal hotline from
New Yorkers getting hit with cases even as the city all but shuts down.
“Clearly,
this is not the moment to be depriving people of their funds and
subjecting them to a situation where their bank accounts are frozen,”
she said.
Some
of those she’s heard from “can’t get at their money to pay for food and
medicine and all of the things we [all] desperately need to protect
ourselves.”
The issue led her group to sign a letter
with more than 60 other organizations — from racial and economic
justice outfits to labor organizations to community activists — asking
Cuomo and Chief Judge Janet DiFiore for an emergency moratorium on all
debt collection in the state.
That
would include an end to enforcement of judgments, a pause on all
garnishments and levies, and stopping attorneys from serving debt
collection orders.
4 comments:
If you really thought that they would stop because of this, then you must be dense. The debt collector agencies don't care about you. I had this one debt collection agency who made a deal with me and told me my debt was cleared after that and they still bothered me and threatened me in letters. So I called the bureau in that state that they were located in and complained about them and about 1 month later, I got a letter from the president of that company apologizing to me. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if New York state has a bureau that heads the collection agencies and new Jersey doesn't have one for sure, atleast not back then. They don't know when to stop and have no sense of boundaries.
I know Big Liberal Bill Mahr is happy because he’s been wanting a recession to get rid of Trump !
"those people" dont care about a crisis, they are, and always will be, about money. There is no end to their greed.
Yeah, I guess credit collectors are considered essential
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