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SOPOT, Poland–As the attacks by Russia on Ukraine reach their 500th day, CUToday.info has arrived in Poland for what will be a week of reporting on how the country’s credit unions are helping Ukrainian refugees, as well as for additional reporting a planned trip later this week to Ukraine to deliver relief supplies and ambulances purchased in large part as the result of donations by U.S. credit unions.

WASHINGTON— The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Department of Treasury have launched an inquiry into high-cost specialty financial products, such as medical credit cards and installment loans, saying they are “pushed on patients as a way to pay for routine medical care and which drive up health care costs and medical debt.”