Identity Theft & Fraud Consumer Protection Tools

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-06-15 — ReportScams.gov Act: cross-connection with report-scams-gov-act: Both concern federal consumer-facing intake channels for fraud/identity-theft reporting; a unified scam portal could complement or overlap existing identity-theft reporting infrastructure. (novelty: 2)
2025-12-02 — Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025: cross-connection with social-security-child-protection-act-2025: Child SSN reissuance is a narrowly targeted remedy within the broader identity-theft consumer-protection toolkit. (novelty: 2)
2025-12-02 — Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act: cross-connection with ssa-identity-theft-single-point-of-contact: Both address post-breach victim remediation: HR5345 provides an SSA-side case coordinator for SSN misuse, complementing broader consumer-facing identity theft protection tools. (novelty: 2)
2026-07-09 — To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to restore the impaired credit of victims of predatory activities and unfair consumer reporting practices, to expand access to tools to protect vulnerable consumers from identity theft, fraud, or a related crime, and protect victims from further harm, and for other purposes.: HR9639 introduced to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to restore impaired credit of victims of predatory and unfair consumer reporting practices and to expand access to identity-theft and fraud protection tools for vulnerable consumers. (novelty: 2)