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 …
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 …
A recent press release from Wells Fargo caught my eye. The title was “Wells Fargo Increases Commitment to Credit Counseling Nonprofits by 35% to $12.4 million in 2011” but upon closer inspection all Wells Fargo was really doing was increasing funding by 35% in 2011 for nonprofit housing counseling. The obvious question is if Wells …
Over the past year there has been more talk from people about rolling out a 0% fairsahre debt management plan. Fairshare is the money creditors “contribute” to non-profit credit counseling groups. It’s a percentage of funds collected from consumers and returned to their creditors. In the mid-1990s the fairshare percentage was 15% of all funds …