A new report from Pew Charitable Trusts finds 76,000 Utahns faced legal action over outstanding debts last year. A confusing ...

A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule means consumers’ hospital and doctor bills can no longer weigh down their ...

Zombie debt is an old, inactive debt that a third-party collector surfaces, essentially bringing it back from the dead — and ...

With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who are struggling with record levels of credit card debt. Meanwhile, consumer ...

The Association for Consumer Debt Relief (ACDR) today welcomed the release of a new study from the Financial Services Innovation Coalition (FSIC), The Consumer Financial Health Crisis: Wage Stagnation ...

As prices continue to rise across the country, Americans are tacking more and more money onto their consumer debt. Americans have $1.3 trillion in credit card debt, $1.7 trillion in auto loan debt and ...

Federal courts have left the door open for Congress to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in a way that would ease the burden of involuntary medical debt on Americans, writes Ramon Looby, of Axxale.

Learn how bad debt recovery impacts accounting and taxes, and how both businesses and individuals should report it for clear ...