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Debt collectors are allowed to DM you on social media now
Debt collectors have to identify debtors straight away if they make contact on social media and the…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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It Just Got A Lot Easier To Get Debt Collectors Off Your Back
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became the third federal agency to take complaints from co…
Mandi Woodruff
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It Just Got A Lot Easier To Get Debt Collectors Off Your Back
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau became the third federal agency to take complaints from co…
Mandi Woodruff
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Mandi Woodruff
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Debt Collectors Are Infiltrating Facebook To Track Down Delinquent Borrowers
In tangent with the Federal Trade Commission, the CFPB's already issued rules that would force coll…
Mandi Woodruff
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$1,400 stimulus checks can fall prey to private debt collectors. Democrats want to prevent that.
Sen. Ron Wyden's office told Insider a standalone bill to protect stimulus checks from debt collect…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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There's A Simple Way To Get Debt Collectors To Stop Humiliating You
Ohio poet and author Joylynn M. Jossel is one example of a victim of harassment at her workplace. S…
Corey Adwar
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A single GOP senator blocked a bill that would stop private debt collectors from seizing stimulus checks
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey said debt collectors had every right to collect money owed, thwarting a Democra…
Tom Porter
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She worked as a debt collector, then faced medical bills after her daughter's hospitalization. Now, her 'debt pro tips' are going viral on TikTok.
"The fact that there are people out there thinking debt equals deadbeat ... debt doesn't equal dead…
Aaron Holmes
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The IRS is using private debt collectors again - and it won't end well
Years ago, the Democratic nominee for president, Michael Dukakis, said that he would enhance the IR…
Adam Chodorow
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A married couple collected more than $1.6 million in debt collection scams across Arizona, according to lawsuit by state's attorney general
Attorney General Mark Brnovich accused the Arizona pair of posing as lawyers and law enforcement an…
Shannen Balogh
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How to dispute a debt you know isn't yours and improve your credit
Disclosure: This post is brought to you by the Personal Finance Insider team. We occasionally highl…
Melanie Lockert
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Man Returns Library Book 41 Years Late And Pays $300 Fine
For example, in 2007, the Queens Library collected about $5.7 million dollars in overdue fines by h…
Laura Brothers
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A cancer survivor paid an old debt, but collectors garnished her wages anyway. It's part of a disturbing trend that's about to get worse.
The CFPB should protect regular folks - not collectors who make false or deceptive representations …
Lauren Saunders,Martha Bergma…
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Here's how student debt could be redefined by the nation's first debtors' union. Democracy might just get rescued in the process.
Creditors and debtors have a "power relationship masquerading as a relationship of equality," Astra…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The IRS just blew millions of dollars on a project that already failed before
"Based on what I saw, I concluded the program undermined effective tax administration, jeopardized …
Bob Bryan
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The Myth That Your Salary Information Is Private Has Been Officially Debunked
And businesses are willing to fork over their employment and HR records to The Work Number because …
Megan Durisin
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Americans are experiencing 'harassment and intimidation' from medical debt collectors, Kamala Harris says. Here are 4 ways she plans to prevent that.
Biden's administration announced a series of actions to lessen medical debt, including helping half…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A former tennis champion who went bankrupt in 2017 has been accused in court of hiding his trophies from debt collectors
Boris Becker, who won six Grand Slam titles between 1985 and 1996, filed for bankruptcy in 2017 ove…
Barnaby Lane
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Trump's campaign still hasn't paid the $211,000 it owes the city of Albuquerque. Now debt collectors are calling Mar-a-Lago, mayor says.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, is one of more than a dozen cities that have struggled to get the Trump ca…