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Should I Bother Settling an Old Navient Private Student Loan?
Question: Dear Steve, I have a private student loan from Navient and it is long past the time that...
What Are My Options to Deal With My Debt?
Question: Dear Steve, I earned a pretty good living in the healthcare field and was paying my debt...
Is a Credit Counseling Debt Management Plan Good for Rebuilding...
Question: Dear Steve, I currently owe about $25,000 in credit card debt. I make a decent salary and...
Student Loan Assistance Marketers Already Making Outbound Calls...
It seems some student loan assistance companies are already charging ahead trying to leverage the...
Should You Have a Credit Card if You Have a Spending Problem?
Credit cards are a great way to spend your money, if you have the cash to back it up. In fact, many...
For Americans With Bills to Pay, Help Is on the Way. Sort Of.
April has arrived. Americans, hunkered down while a pandemic rages, face what to do about their...
How to Protect Yourself Against These 9 Coronavirus Scams
Grifters, scam artists, snake oil salesmen — whatever you call them, people who try to con others...
Should I Just Let My Cosigned Navient Student Loans Go to...
Question: Dear Steve, I am. a cosigner on a student loan of my daughters with Navient. She has 3...
Debt Relief Industry
Adding Tradelines and Authorized Users to Credit Report Can Land...
Here is an important lesson for any company or person that is selling any service that uses added...
CFPB to Hold Debt Relief Event
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will host a day-long convening, ‘Evolutions in...
Student Loan Assistance Executive Enters Guilty Criminal Plea...
American Financial Benefits Center (AFBC) was sued by the Federal Trade Commission. Company head...
Arete Financial Freedom Employee Back Pay Frozen for Now
While Arete Financial Freedom had a temporary victory yesterday and will be able to begin servicing...
Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge
Clavell v. U.S. Department of Education: A New York bankruptcy...
Clavell v. U.S. Department of Education: An Introduction Christian Clavell, a 35-year-old sales...
Davis v. U.S. Department of Education: Another law graduate is...
Few overburdened student-loan debtors attempt to get their loans discharged in bankruptcy. Most...
Should Middle-Aged People Take Out Student Loans to Attend...
Walter Lee Little and Linda Leticia Little, a married couple, are 58 years old. About thirteen...
Good News For People Wanting to Discharge Federal Student Loans...
I would bet this case will be appealed because it sets a troubling precedent that allows for the...
Student Loan Rescue or Assistance
Irvine California Employee Spills the Beans on Student Loan...
I received the following tip from an alleged employee of an Irvine based student loan assistance...
Student Debt Doctor and American Student Loan Consolidators...
The operators of two Florida-based student loan debt relief schemes are banned from the debt relief...
Brandon Frere of American Financial Benefits Center –...
Student loan assistance company executive Brandon Frere, 41, was arrested and faces a maximum...
Deep Dive Into NY Suit Against Student Loan Assistance Companies
Earlier today I wrote NY Sues a Bunch of Student Loan Debt Relief Companies and Equitable...
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Scam Alert
Boxes of Eden and Destinato Have My Scam Antenna Way Up
I got a tip (send in your tips here) about a company named Boxes of Eden. The reader was concerned...
Scammers Targeting Those Afraid About Coronavirus and Stealing...
Scammers are taking advantage of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to con people into giving up...
FTC Sends More than $6.9 Million in Refunds to Victims of Office...
The Federal Trade Commission is sending refunds totaling more than $6.9 million to small...
Burlington Financial Group – Consumer Complaint –...
Consumer Statement: I was mislead as to what services were being delivered. Burlington has me...