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Minnesota: correction of PASS-02 research and access dates
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SMN Credit-repair representations, Minnesota CSOs, CROA, and the TSR →| Old label | Replacement label | Qualification |
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| Research/access date: October 24, 2026 Pacific / October 25, 2026 UTC | Research/access date: October 25, 2026 Pacific / October 26, 2026 UTC | Corrected from the supplied P2 session record: accepted 2026-10-26T02:41:17.848Z and complete capture 2026-10-26T02:56:02.490Z. This is an overall research-session date correction only; no individual source-fetch timestamps are asserted. |
| Event-date table — Research access: October 24, 2026 Pacific | Event-date table — Research access: October 25, 2026 Pacific | Same overall P2 session-date correction. No legal, document, publication, signature, filing, effective, or P1 access date is changed. |
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| Research/access date: October 24, 2026 Pacific / October 25, 2026 UTC | Research/access date: October 25, 2026 Pacific / October 26, 2026 UTC | Corrected from the supplied P2 session record: accepted 2026-10-26T02:41:17.848Z and complete capture 2026-10-26T02:56:02.490Z. This is an overall research-session date correction only; no individual source-fetch timestamps are asserted. |
| Event-date table — Research access: October 24, 2026 Pacific | Event-date table — Research access: October 25, 2026 Pacific | Same overall P2 session-date correction. No legal, document, publication, signature, filing, effective, or P1 access date is changed. |
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SMN — Minnesota Debt Settlement and Debt Management
Inside: A. Substantive findings · 1. Minnesota regulates settlement and debt management separately · 2. Minnesota is a registration state for covered debt settlement services
SMN — Minnesota
Inside: 2026 registration amendments, effective date, and incorporated exemptions · Focused disposition · 1. Replacement for PASS-01 section 4 currentness discussion
SMN — Minnesota
Inside: Current public registration materials, transition evidence, and status-verification procedure · Focused disposition · 1. Current public application, checklist, and registration instructions
SMN Minnesota settlement-fee performance and partial-plan savings
Inside: 1. Principal findings · A1. Currentness and material effective dates · A2. Minnesota’s performance question
SMN Minnesota DMP fees, initial-payment allocation, and necessary funds ledger
Inside: A. Answers to the central questions · A1. Can origination and maintenance both be taken from an initial payment? · A2. What remains unresolved about a separately paid origination fee?
SMN Minnesota lead generation, referrals, compensation, and provider boundaries
Inside: A1. Four questions must be answered separately · A2. Lead generation is distinct from providing the service—but not necessarily unregulated · Actor/activity/required-step matrix
SMN Credit-repair representations, Minnesota CSOs, CROA, and the TSR
Inside: A. Principal conclusions · A1. Three regimes—not one interchangeable “debt relief” rule · A2. A material Minnesota amendment must be applied
SMN Custody, account controls, records, reconciliation, and security
Inside: B2. Ownership and account control: what is established · Bank-documentation gap · C1. DMP and settlement controls are not interchangeable
SMN Collection-agency, debt-buyer, and individual-collector credentials
Inside: A. Findings that control this gateway · 1. Minnesota’s collection definition is not the FDCPA definition · 2. Entity approval and individual registration have different starting rules
SMN Ordinary consumer collection communications, validation, and disputes
Inside: A. Conclusions that must remain separate · Necessary 2026 exclusion overlay · Principal-purpose buyers and knowledge
SMN Earnings garnishment, wage exemptions, and the claim–objection–hearing process
Inside: A1. Minnesota no longer has a universally applicable flat 25% ordinary-wage formula · A2. Percentage protection is automatic; a benefit-based claim is a different question · A3. Garnishment, sheriff’s levy, and attorney’s execution are different procedures
SMN Bank-account and non-earnings garnishment, exemptions, tracing, and release
Inside: A1. There are three materially different routes · A2. Automatic federal protection is not the entire exemption determination · A3. Minnesota expressly requires FIFO for specified deposited exemptions
SMN Earnings remittance, retention, exemption claims, and form harmonization
Inside: A. Focused findings · A1. The 90-day remittance instruction is enacted law, not merely informal guidance · A2. The six-business-day creditor rule is not a six-business-day employer-release rule
SMN Consumer contract and account-debt limitations, accrual, choice of law, and revival
Inside: A1. The consumer rule is broader than a debt-buyer restriction · A2. Six years is not a universal classification rule for every transaction · A3. A missed installment is not automatically acceleration of every future installment
SMN Bounded correction supplement to
Inside: A. Verified statutory correction · A1. What §571.79(h) requires · A2. Necessary surrounding discharge provisions
SMN Minnesota consumer money-debt court gateway
Inside: A1. District and conciliation court are not interchangeable · The $4,000 category is narrower than “consumer debt” · A2. Venue and jurisdiction are separate
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