By Deanna Templeton We recently received a question from a reader who is looking for help with a past due movie rental that went to collections: Toda...
1) Get organized Start a file cabinet where you begin to collect all of your financial papers. Need help? Read one of David Bach's Finish Rich books....
With President Reagan's election, the majority of the American people embraced an economic and political philosophy enshrining the private sector as the driver of US life and values. The results are in. Look around.
By Aruna Viswanatha and Rick Rothacker March 7 (Reuters) - The largest U.S. banks face a multi-state investigation into whether they h...
A Houston woman has called a debt collector “cruel” and “despicable” after the collector threatened her sister. Her sister, she says, died ba...
I suggest putting a freeze on those debt collector lawsuits until unemployment falls to some more reasonable level -- 6 percent. That would give millions of Americans the breathing space to get back to work -- and then they can catch up on all those old past due debts.
By Gerri Detweiler It's bad enough to owe medical debt you can't pay. But what if you're young and being hounded by collectors for medical bills that...
Occupy Wall Street alumni have hatched a new plan: Raise money and then bail people out of debt. The campaign, called Rolling Jubilee, kicks off Thurs...
Occupy Wall Street is getting ready to start literally making some debt disappear.
We're in debt, as individuals, because of a lack of services. If Washington lacks the political will to address these issues and kick a little ass, we'll do it ourselves. Our message to Americans is simple: You are not a loan. And you are not alone.
OWS is certainly muscling (buying?) its way in, but with a "business" model that collection agencies and debt buyers would not have entertained in a lifetime.
Occupy Wall Street movement supporters were outraged by the bank bailout. Now they want to start a bailout that people can actually get behind. Dub...
Everyone has to pay the bills somehow. Some people just don't feel great about the means to that end. Sure, feeling dissatisfied or unhappy at wor...
When it comes to scandalous behavior by debt collectors, I thought I'd heard it all. Still, the case of war veteran Michael Collier is a new low and paints a clear picture of a truly ugly nook in the financial services industry.
It's one thing to be harassed about an unpaid bill. It's another thing to be harassed about a bill you never actually owed. Brandy De Alba, a Calif...
The American justice system must not be sold to the highest bidder -- not to lobbyists, not to politicians, and certainly not to debt collectors. District attorneys can't continue to demean our institutions by renting out their letterhead.
Debt collectors and district attorneys are teaming up to bully bad-check writers into paying their debt, including a California woman who bounced a $4...
A Minnesota hospital company that worked with debt-collection firm Accretive Health is in hot water with the federal government over allegedly harassi...
By: Youth Radio One kind of business is thriving in the midst of troday's struggling economy: debt collection agencies in charge of tracking down stu...
Debt collectors can call you, hound you and make you feel like a lowlife, but here in America, they can't throw you in jail over your unpaid bills. Or...
We spoke with four people about their experiences as debt collectors and what consumers should know when they get on the phone with them.
It's time for an update on activities occurring in the world of high finance. Several newsworthy events have occurred.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act says that if a collection company is trying to get you to settle a debt, they can only call you between 8 a.m. ...
Accretive Health, a hospital billing and debt-collection contractor accused of badgering patients for money, won't be allowed to do business in Minnes...
Irzen Octa, an Indonesian businessman, died in a Citibank office under mysterious circumstances last March, while debt collectors were questioning him...
