When you fail to repay credit card balances you owe, those unpaid debts are eventually sold to third-party debt collection ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Performant Recovery, Inc. today for illegal student loan ...

Federal law says Native Americans aren’t liable for medical bills the Indian Health Service promises to pay. Some are billed ...

On December 9, the CFPB entered into a consent order with a debt collection agency for alleged unlawful student loan debt collection practices against defaulted borrowers. The debt collection agency’s ...

A charge-off is a debt that has gone continuously unpaid for a sufficient amount of time — usually around 180 days — and that ...

Receivables Performance Management LLC will pay $5.6 million to settle allegations it negligently failed to protect the ...

She went to court but to no avail. A private tutor has resorted to engaging debt collectors to collect the $680 in tuition ...

The company says it now works with healthcare companies on “identifying, preventing, and recovering waste and improper payments.” ...

Debt collectors have a reputation for being pushy, but there are strict rules about what they’re actually allowed to do.

In November 2024, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) proposed additional amendments to its ...

According to the Tshwane metro, its debtor’s book has been inflated by R10-billion since 2021, with major defaulters increasingly being residential property owners and businesses.