As the credit card bills pile up and the variable interest rates on your cards climb higher, it's easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt that you can't easily overcome. And, when you add the ...

When debt piles up, it can start to feel like there's no way out. After all, credit card minimum payments barely chip away at your balances, the interest charges keep climbing, and if you're behind on ...

The math is brutal. At an average interest rate of 22%, all it takes is a revolving credit card balance of a few thousand dollars to find yourself in serious trouble, especially as the interest ...

In a February 2024 report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) developed recommendations for the IRS to bolster the results and increase the equity of its private debt collection (PDC) ...

Medical bills can quickly spiral, so you need to understand your legal exposure if the debt goes to collections.

A Pasadena-based financial institution will be paying off the smaller, consumer debts of families in Altadena and the ...

The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

An ongoing effort to wipe out up to $700 million in medical debt for Wayne County residents has made a discovery some may find surprising. Those most in need of medical debt relief were not the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate $72 million of debt, the governor ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — General Treasurer James Diossa announced the launch of a new program Tuesday morning aimed to ease the burden of unpaid medical bills for Rhode Islanders. The Medical Debt ...