Tag Archives: national foundation for credit counseling
- NFCC Press Release Seems to Misrepresent Truth About Credit Counseling. But Why?
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling sent out a press release today claiming their survey uncovered public misconceptions about credit counseling agencies. The press release listed five areas the NFCC felt consumers struggled with in knowing the truth about credit counseling. But some of the points the NFCC felt they needed to clarify appear to [...]
- Consumer Credit Counseling Pros and Cons. My Ultimate Guide to Understanding How Credit Counseling Really Works.
Consumer credit counseling is one of the options people turn to when dealing with debt issues so let’s take an honest look at the pros and cons of the program and what it has to offer. Consumer credit counseling in one form or another has been around as debt proraters, debt lumpers, or debt consolidators [...]
- Consumer Credit Counseling Settles Debt on 50% of its Clients – 1968
As a student of debt history I’m probably one of those odd geeks that spends time reading outdated and arcane material about consumer debt and debt relief activities. Recently I sat down and read a 1968 document put out by the NFCC. Today they are called the National Foundation for Credit Counseling but back then [...]
- Did the NFCC Client of the Year Really Do the Ethical Thing?
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling Recently put out a press release celebrating their clients of the year who, in my opinion, should never have been put into a debt management plan to begin with. See NFCC Celebrates Utter Stupidity and Puts Older Dementia Patient in Debt Management Plan. My goodness, I hate to make [...]
- NFCC Celebrates Utter Stupidity and Puts Older Dementia Patient in Debt Management Plan
A press release out today by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling is downright ignorant, stupid, harmful and cruel. It’s hard to believe they feel this is something to be proud of. For the record, I’m not calling the consumer stupid. In this release the NFCC brags about Francine and Jim Bostick who at ages [...]
- Consumer Survey by NFCC Shows People Are Wary About Real Help From Credit Counselors
On one hand you have to applaud the most recent release from the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. One thumb up. On the other hand it comes across as simply just more denial about the disturbing lanscape that faces narrow niche nonprofit credit counselors. The NFCC survey was an online poll conducted on the NFCC [...]
- The Truth About The Success Rates, Failure Rates and Completion Rates of Credit Counseling, Debt Settlement, Bankruptcy, and Debt Consolidation Loans
This is a story that I’ve been working on for a few weeks. I’ve been asking people and groups for feedback and information to write this but what I’ve run into, is a wall. I have received some feedback from groups and people that don’t wish to be publicly identified to protect themselves but what [...]
- Credit Counseling Industry Accused in Potential Historic Turning Point Lawsuit
A lawsuit I’ve been following since it became publicly available back in the middle of October has become a major milestone in what could spell the death of credit counseling as we know it I first learned of this case about six months ago when it was developing but I’d not written anything about it [...]
- Will the CFPB Outlaw Fairshare to Credit Counseling Organizations?
I was approached not long ago by an knowledgeable industry insider with the statement that the CFPB may be already in the process of policy to outlaw credit counseling fairshare payments. You know the first reaction you might have about that statement is that it would never happen. Fairshare is that commission the creditors pay [...]
- Why is Credit Counseling Stumped Demand is Down?
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a wave of information appearing on the web about the decrease in demand for credit counseling services. The reason given seems to be “consumer fatigue.” The peak client numbers that nonprofit consumer credit counselors saw in 2009 appear to be slowly falling. NFCC member agencies in the [...]
- NFCC Appears to be Talking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouth
Recently the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (“NFCC”), the nonprofit franchise operation for credit counseling outfits, filed a public statement in which they were winging about the amount of funding they get from creditors. Historically, a significant amount of support for those activities came from creditors in the form of “fair share.” In recent times, [...]
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling – History and Future
National Foundation for Credit Counseling History The largest and oldest association of nonprofit credit counselors is an association that was originally founded as the National Foundation for Consumer Credit, and later changed their name to the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Groups that exist as members under the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) are [...]
- Dear Credit Counselors, You Are Your Own Worst Enemy.
I’m frustrated. For the life of me I can’t understand why credit counseling continues to look at debt settlement as the enemy. The anger and desire to kill the solution seems to be opposite of what a charitable industry should be trying to do. The other day over a delicious Cracker Barrel lunch I was [...]
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) – Scam, Complaint, Review, or Praise?
Please share your experience with this debt relief association and provide your review and feedback, in the comments section below. The goal of this page is to allow people to share information that may be important to help others to make a more informed decision regarding their experience with this debt relief association. Here are [...]
- National Foundation for Credit Counseling – Scam, Complaint, Review, or Praise?
Please share your experience with this debt relief company and provide your review and feedback, in the comments section below. The goal of this page is to allow people to share information that may be important to help others to make a more informed decision regarding their experience with this debt relief company. Here are [...]