When a debt collector sells your account, the process can shift quickly. Here's what borrowers should understand.

Medical debt can be written off in some circumstances, but not in the widespread way many people hope for. Instead, several ...

When a lender sells your debt, the rules change, but your obligations might not. Here's what borrowers should know.

Consumers in Georgia are facing increasing harassment from debt collectors, with reports of collectors pursuing debts that ...

Charge-offs can hinder your credit for years, but there are legitimate ways to address them and rebuild your score.

Unpaid tabs to the city now surpass $8 billion dating to the early 1990s, with Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration looking ...

The Latino engagement group Somos Votantes Education Fund partnered with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to write ...

The bill would prohibit medical debt from appearing on credit reports, ban wage garnishment and cap interest at 3%, down from ...

Nearly 71 million Americans have debts that have gone into collections. So, what do you do if a collector calls? Don't panic, Nina Pineda has your consumer bill of rights.

For single mum-of-four Abi, the debts she has built up by using buy now, pay later (BNPL) services have left her trapped in a "vicious circle". Abi, from Sheffield, is one of a number of people who ...

If certain state laws are voided, millions of consumers with unpaid medical debt could see negative marks appear — or reappear — on their credit reports.

The only real solution to this is for the state to step up and fund their responsibility for funding courts,” Trustee Julie ...