FTC Release: Citizens Disability to Pay $1 Million over FTC Charges that it Made Tens of Millions of Illegal and Misleading Calls to Consumers Nationwide

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Defendants gathered information on vulnerable consumers through websites offering prizes, coupons, and other services, and subjected them to illegal telemarketing calls

Citizens Disability, LLC and its subsidiary will pay a $1 million penalty to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that they made tens of millions of illegal calls to consumers, including to numbers on the Do Not Call (DNC) registry, and that they misrepresented that they were calling consumers in response to inquiries about their eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD

View Press Release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/citizens-disability-pay-1-million-over-ftc-charges-it-made-tens-millions-illegal-misleading-calls

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