Subpar and illegal practices and providing almost 200 million in redressed 1. 6 million consumers. We have now handled, as we have mentioned, 650,000 complaints, a matter that is particularly important to us. This includes all manners of Financial Products and services. This includes each of the states. One excerpt from a Service Member in alabama reads that we open an account we became unable to pay the full amount and we made it an agreement to pay a lesser amount and campaign by allotment. And i was not served with the judgment prior to court or after, i was informed of it when my wages began to be garnished and we have asked to have this issue fixed. We have paid this company for a computer hutch, table and chairs, and the furniture has not lasted, however the payments continue. We need assistance as we have tried every other step possible. And another excerpt in my home state of ohio and ranking members home state reads that i elected to a reduced rate payment plan with a Student
The door is an excellent door. Its very well fortified, and its completely deployed. Its everywhere. The one vulnerability is this period of time when you have to leave for essential purposes, even passing meals or access the bathroom on the aircraft. Even if its for a very short period of time, and we take steps to make sure its for the shortest period possible, that period is when were most vulnerable. The installing of a very costeffective barrier, were talking 5,000 to 12,000 per aircraft once installed, its forever, no operating cost of it you can almost completely if not completely eliminate that risky period of time. Do you know what they look like . Ive seen some renderings, but is it a full door, or screen or what . Yes sir, its a wire mesh retractable, lightweight and its inexpensive as i mentioned. It goes from the floor to the ceiling of the cabin and its installed after the cockpit door, but before the passenger cabin. So as you enter an aircraft, normally you see the cock
Spends its funds because the cfpb operates outside of the appropriations process. Even the Federal Reserve which funds the cfpb from its earnings does not control the bureaus budget. Because congress cannot tighten the financial reins when Budgeting Issues arise the bureaus current structure makes meaningful congressional oversight very difficult. Socalled independence is one reason cited by the authors of dodd frank for the bureau structure. But other independent agencies such as the securities and exchange commission, the cftc, the ftc, and the cpsc are all subject to the appropriations process. Additionally, the bureau does not even have its own office of Inspector General, relying instead on the Inspector General of the Federal Reserve. Some of us have urged the adoption specific reforms to make the bureau more accountable, and more transparent. Putting the bureau through the appropriations process and establishing a board of director i believe it would resemble other agencies and
Collector. The agency then sends those complaints on to the company who then has some time to respond to both the consumer and the cfpb and to try to resolve the issue. Now the agency has received more than 650,000 complaints through the hotline. Could you give us a sense, director, a ballpark figure is fine, about how many of those complaints were resolved to the Consumers Satisfaction . And how much consumers have recovered financially through this process. Yeah. And ill say the arc of Consumer Complaints continues to increase in terms of volume. I believe thats a function of theres still a lot of lack of visibility. People dont necessarily know what the cfpb is and will know over time, i hope. I hope theyll see that were providing value to them. Thats what we aim to do. I think we had Something Like 700 and some credit card complaints in our first month, and were up to about 25,000 complaints per month across the entire range of Financial Services. What happens then is we give the c
Implement it going forward. Okay. Im going to skip mr. Baker because my questions were about rock fish and striped bass. And i think you mentioned that on the one hand, you know rock fish are back. But on the other hand whats happening in terms of Climate Change could severely impact them. Did you want to add to that . One of the being concerns is a wasting disease. There is no real absolute knowledge as to what causes it. But we know that when fish are stressed, theyre more prone to disease. So the general thinking is that a fish under stress has a lot more problems than one that isnt. And certainly, the population is starting to dip again. Okay. Let me then go to lastly to dr. Ekwurzel. Because the noaa recently released the state of the climate in a 2014 report that represents data from scientists around the globe and i know you stressed you gave us a lot of information about annapolis and maryland. But i if i could just go, you know, beyond that you know, according to the state of