The Fair Credit Billing Act is a 1974 federal law enacted to protect consumers from unfair credit billing practices. It enables individuals to dispute unauthorized charges on their accounts and ...

Credit card consumers have a number of different rights and protections afforded to them, many of which are laid out in the Fair Credit Billing Act. The law has been around since 1974 — longer ...

The Fair Credit Billing Act is not nearly as well-known to creditors and their counsel as its "fair credit" brother, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. But the FCBA is becoming increasingly popular ...

The genesis of these protections is the federal Fair Credit Billing Act, which protects you from fraud by requiring credit card companies—not consumers—to deal with fraudulent charges.

Customers have the right to dispute errors under the Fair Credit Billing Act. Customers should make sure they are not mistaken about the billing error and should ...

The Fair Credit Billing Act provides a timeframe for resolving credit card disputes. This timeframe includes sending a letter to the issuer within 60 days and the issuer resolving the issue within ...

Chargebacks were introduced as part of the Fair Credit Billing Act to enhance consumer confidence in electronic payments. Why chargebacks happen Chargebacks occur because of fraudulent or ...