Consumer Debt Articles
An operation that collects debts owed to municipalities has agreed to stop engaging in allegedly illegal collection tactics under a settlement with the Federal Trade…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against Experian and its subsidiaries for deceiving consumers about the use of credit scores it sold…
Update March 24, 2017 – Veritas Legal Plan responds to allegations. Click here. I recently received some concerns from a reader regarding Peak Legal Advocates.…
Today sixteen consumer advocacy groups sent the following letter to members of Congress in hopes they would intervene to not allow the Department of Education…
A couple of days ago I wrote about the Trump Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos who told student loan guaranty agencies with FFEL…
by Annie Waldman ProPublica, March 21, 2017, 10:44 a.m. A former lobbyist for an association of for-profit colleges resigned last Friday from the Department of…
Debt Relief Industry
On December 4, 2009 the Federal Trade Commission held a roundtable discussion, actually it was more of a big U) about protecting the consumer in…
“Dear Steve, I am currently working on fixing my credit….now I am finding some hiccups My question is fairly simple. I have been back and…
“Time-barred” debts are debts so old they are beyond the point at which a creditor or debt collector may sue you to collect. This is…