MINNEAPOLIS — So-called junk fees are set to be a thing of the past in Minnesota starting Jan. 1. Those extra costs often show up as health and wellness fees on bills at some restaurants.

In February 2023, President Biden promised in his State of the Union address to take on what he called junk fees, credit card late fees, bank overdraft fees. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

The rule is one of the final pieces of President Joe Biden's wide-ranging crackdown on junk fees that drive up consumer costs without providing visible benefits. "We all know the experience of ...

ORLANDO, Fla — You know those annoying surprise junk fees you pay for things like concert tickets and hotel rooms? Well, those should soon be going away. Action 9 Consumer Investigator Jeff Deal ...

cleaning fees and resort fees — often characterized as “junk fees” — in the total prices that are advertised to consumers. The rule, which becomes effective 120 days after it’s published ...

President Joe Biden and his administration have spent years tackling what they call “junk fees,” which are mandatory fees that are not transparently disclosed to consumers. The Federal Trade ...

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized its “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees” (Junk Fees Rule) designed, the FTC noted, to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and mandate clear ...

The Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2024 aims to prevent deceptive advertising by requiring total price disclosure for hotel stays. The Federal Trade Commission issued a rule banning junk fees ...

The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an initiative it began in 2022 at the urging of the Biden administration to eliminate "junk fees" at hotels, short-term rentals and for tickets to ...

That’s almost a 50% markup. Ticketmaster is a monopoly and it has been allowed to overcharge customers with these junk fees for too long.” The rule was issued as Ticketmaster continues to ...

A little more than a year after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule to ban junk fees, it announced this week a final Junk Fees Rule to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and other ...