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Financial Rights produces a regular E-Flyer with a range of articles on systemic issues in financial services including tips for consumers, community workers and financial counsellors. To sign up for our E-flyer click the Subscribe button above.

Financial Rights E-flyer: July 2024

  1. Financial Rights welcomes new Chair and additional directors
  2. National Consumer Advocacy Award joint winners (again!)
  3. Revised Banking Code approved – with no enforceable clauses
  4. Desktop audit of Life Insurer family violence policies finds big disparities between insurers
  5. Mob Strong visits East Arnhem and finds superannuation issues rife
  6. Housing stress is biting – and lenders are on notice they must do hardship better
  7. Youpla Support Program
  8. Recent submissions

Financial Rights E-flyer: April 2024

  1. Credit reporting review
  2. Flood insurance matters wreak havoc
  3. Family violence safeguards for energy customers
  4. Big wins for First Nations people ripped off by dodgy businesses
  5. Unfinished business 5 years on from the Hayne Royal Commission
  6. What would you like to hear about?

Financial Rights E-flyer: December 2023

  1. New Chair for Financial Rights, 2023 Annual Report released
  2. Industry funding for financial counselling
  3. Innovate RAP 2023-2025 launched
  4. A word from Mob Strong Debt Help on dedicated First Nations phone lines in banking
  5. Scams finally getting the attention they deserve
  6. E-flyer feedback
  7. Services during the holiday period

Financial Rights E-flyer: October 2023

  1. Tell us what you think of the E-Flyer
  2. New Financial Rights board members
  3. Consumer advocacy recognition
  4. Small Amount Credit Contract Reforms now in effect
  5. Revised strata arrears information from the Australian Tax Office and NSW government
  6. Top tips for people struggling to pay their mortgage
  7. You can now donate function to Financial Rights via our website
Financial Rights E-flyer: May 2023 – New Website
Financial Rights E-flyer: November 2021
  1. Insurance Family Violence policies: Desktop Audit
  2. Credit Reporting and economic abuse
  3. How we have helped – Economic Abuse case studies
  4. Mob Strong Debt Help: Look out for the signs of “humbugging” Aboriginal Elders
Financial Rights E-flyer: August 2021
  1. Insurance Law Service cuts hours of operation due to inadequate funding
  2. Responsible lending: Update on the status of the bill and possible outcomes.
  3. Recent Changes to Credit Reporting: updated legal fact sheet
  4. New Report – Exposed: Insurance problems after extreme weather events
  5. Retailers providing credit cards: Irresponsible lending through department stores and retailers.
  6. Natural disasters and bushfires funding: Working with Welfare Rights to spread a message that we can help people.
  7. Family Violence and General Insurance: Desktop audit of family violence policies
Financial Rights E-flyer: April 2021
  1. NSW Floods: Helping people through insurance claims
  2. What’s ahead for mortgagees after COVID-19 relief measures end?
  3. How an end to responsible lending could affect your clients
  4. Debt collectors and their underhanded tactics: “Sham judgments”
  5. The risks with funeral insurance: Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (now Youpla)
  6. Financial Rights Community Legal Education: What’s available
Financial Rights E-flyer: December 2020
  1. What we do at the Financial Rights Legal Centre: Save Safe Lending Campaign
  2. Funeral insurance a risky business for the Indigenous community
  3. COVID-19: Motor vehicle accident insurance claim delays
  4. Radical overhaul of privacy laws required
  5. The risks and opportunities of Open Insurance
  6. Consumers warned to avoid Christmas debt
Financial Rights E-flyer: June 2020
  1. Advice and assistance in the time of COVID-19
  2. A difficult journey: Travel Insurer’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  3. Should clients access their super… again?
  4. Temporary changes to the Bankruptcy Act: a case study
  5. Three month COVID-19 hardship check-in with the banks
Financial Rights E-flyer: March 2020
  1. Advice and assistance in the time of COVID-19
  2. First came the fires, then the floods. And the battle with the insurer.
  3. Commissioner Hayne’s funding suggestion that fell through the cracks.
  4. COVID-19 and travel insurance. Buyers beware!
  5. Mob Strong Debt Helpline
  6. Trent Zimmerman MP
Financial Rights E-flyer: January 2020 (Special Bushfire Edition)

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Claudia was comprehensive in her investigation of my pds and clearly communicated what my rights are and potential next steps. I have clear next steps to respond to the insurer in this case. Claudia helped to remove the emotional charge for me from this ongoing insurance issue and given me clear steps to resolution. Thank you so much.