To amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to address restrictions on the garnishment of wages, prohibitions on debt collection practices relating to imprisonment of debtors, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · October 25, 2022
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Protecting Wages of Essential Workers Act of 2022
This bill expands the federal restriction on the garnishment of wages to protect from any garnishment the first $1,000 of an individual's weekly disposable earnings.
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