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My Husband Died and I Can’t Get Out of The Spousal...
Question: Dear Steve, Hi Steve, I have been attempting to get my joint consolidation loan split...
Yes You Can Get Extra Financial Aid for College by Asking
I just read a great post that describes how college students can get additional financial aid if...
DOE Gives Finger to Grand Canyon University
Even a blind acorn finds a pig occasionally, and Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education...
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My Husband Died and I Can’t Get Out of The Spousal...
Question: Dear Steve, Hi Steve, I have been attempting to get my joint consolidation loan split...
Can I Just Hand My Car Back to the Lender Since I...
Question: Dear Steve, I am upside down on my Nissan financial loan – I owe 17,000 –...
Did Freedom Debt Relief Mislead Us?
Question: Dear Steve, My husband suffered an injury that resulted in us going without income for a...
GCFS is Garnishing Me Again. Can They Do That?
Question: Dear Steve, I just received a letter from my employee on Saturday, and it stated GCFS Inc...
What Do I Do About Navicore Solutions, SoFi and Prosper?
Question: Dear Steve, I lost my job due to COVID last June and have not found work yet. My...
Yes You Can Get Extra Financial Aid for College by Asking
I just read a great post that describes how college students can get additional financial aid if...
DOE Gives Finger to Grand Canyon University
Even a blind acorn finds a pig occasionally, and Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education...
Putting My Phone Permanently on Do Not Disturb Changed My Life
Let me start by admitting that at 61-years old, I might be an old fart. But it seems that the...
Debt Relief Industry
GreenPath Suffers Setback in Recent Lawsuit That Applies to All...
The folks at Greenpath, the non-profit debt management company, were recently sued. I wrote about...
How to Check Out a Business or Company to Avoid Getting Scammed...
Here is a guide to help avoid being cheated or scammed by a business or company and check out or...
How to Handle a Consumer Complaint Like a Pro And Come Out...
Over the years of writing about the debt relief space, I’ve grown exceedingly frustrated by...
What I Learned From Selling Debt Relief Services. What I Got...
I had this idea for an article to look back to my early days in the debt relief world, back when I...
Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge
A Bankruptcy Court Eliminates Grandmother’s Student Loans
Between 2006 and 2015, Jamie Mudd took out 41 student loans to attend Heald College, a for-profit...
Student Loan Debt Might Steal Your Inheritance
Jill Stevenson enrolled at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2002, but she never graduated. Although...
Student Loan Servicer Hit With Big Contempt Sanction
In September 2020, Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glen slapped a huge contempt penalty on Great Lakes...
Judge Grants Partial Discharge of Private Student Loan Debt
Mendenhall v. Navient Corporation: A $76,000 student-loan debt grows fivefold In 2007, Steven...
Student Loan Rescue or Assistance
Are the Scammers Now Getting Scammed?
American Financial Support Services was shutdown for bad acts by the Federal Trade Commission. They...
You Thought it Was Over. It’s Not Over with CFPB and...
Back in May the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) entered a stipulated final judgment and...
Student Loan Relief Operation Owes $107 Million to Consumers But...
It appears Premier Student Loan Center has come to an agreement with the Consumer Financial...
Court Rules in FTC’s Favor Against Student Debt Relief Scammers
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has ruled in favor of the Federal...
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Scam Alert
Why Aren’t the Sanctuary Belize Players in Jail?
Question: Dear Steve, Thank you for your excellent reporting on Sanctuary Belize. A cousin of mine...
Home-Alarm Company Punished for Using Credit Scores for Pricing
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) and the Arkansas Attorney General settled with...
Frank Financial Aid Warned to Stop Promoting Student Loan...
The Federal Trade Commission released a letter they recently sent to Frank Financial Aid to back...
How Do We Get These Jerks to Stop Calling?
Question: Dear Steve, These same asshole jerkoffs call my cell and home phone daily. They even call...
