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I Owe Amex and Best Buy and No Longer Live in the U.S.
Question: Dear Steve, My debt is almost $28k with Amex on 4 cards. I came to Europe in Sept 2020...
“Don’t Just Retire. Retire Well” But Millions...
Almost every day, I see a television ad for an investment firm that targets retirees...
Timeshare Exit Team – Consumer Complaint – June 22...
Consumer Statement: Last July (2020) I paid a large fee to the timeshare exit team to get out of a...
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I Owe Amex and Best Buy and No Longer Live in the U.S.
Question: Dear Steve, My debt is almost $28k with Amex on 4 cards. I came to Europe in Sept 2020...
We Are 60 With Student Loan Debt and Need to Save for Retirement
Question: Dear Steve, My husband and I are 60. We have put 4 children through college and ourselves...
Is It True I’m Trapped in My Private Student Loan Debt?
Question: Dear Steve, I went to High Point University in NC a private institution in 2012...
We Achieved Our Goal and Everything Came Crashing Down
Question: Dear Steve, My husband and I have been together for 30 years. In 2017, we finally...
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“Don’t Just Retire. Retire Well” But Millions...
Almost every day, I see a television ad for an investment firm that targets retirees...
Student Loan Payment Relief During Covid About to Go Terminal
About 40 million student borrowers got some relief last year when the Department of Education...
Will an Ivy League Degree Make You Less Employable?
By Richard Fossey In a recent Wall Street Journal essay, R. R. Reno, Editor of First Things, wrote...
I Need to Get Past Late Mortgage Payments Removed
Question: Dear Steve, What is the process for getting old (5 years) late mortgage payments removed...
Debt Relief Industry
TurboFinance Drags Down CareOne Benefit and American Debt...
I was sent the following press release to publish for TurboFinance. I don’t know who...
Multiple Student Loan Debt Relief Entitles Settle With FTC
The operators of a student loan debt relief scheme are banned from providing debt relief services...
CFPB Takes Action Against Debt-Settlement Company for Charging...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) requested today that a federal district court enter...
Debt Relief Companies Get Bad News
Debt relief companies like debt settlement and credit counselors are always on the hunt for...
Student Loan Bankruptcy Discharge
Bankruptcy Judge – “This Student Loan Case Fits the...
In Goodvin v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, Judge Dale Somers, a Kansas bankruptcy...
Do I Have to Include My Tax Return in My Adversary Proceeding?
Question: I am currently pursuing an adversary proceeding on student loans against the DOE, and...
Bankruptcy Judges Eliminates Federal Student Loans Without IDR...
Seth Koeut was born in Cambodia and came to the United States as a child. Like many immigrants, he...
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 Rescue or Assistance
Student Loan Assistance Groups Hit With Millions in Judgments
In January of 2020 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) went after Chou Team Realty...
CFPB Hits Unlawful Student Loan Debt-Relief Scheme
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today sued a student loan debt relief company, its...
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...
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