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What Is a 1099-C Form and How Does It Affect Your Credit?

Credit Corp

Some of the items on this list include: Canceled amounts that were gifts or inheritances Certain student loans and student loan discharges Qualifying purchase price reductions If you ultimately need to claim the income, you must incorporate the 1099-C into your federal tax filing and report the canceled debt as “other income”.

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CFPB Warns Auto Finance Companies About Inadvertent Repossessions

Troutman Sanders

Failing to cancel active repossession orders when a consumer files for bankruptcy. Failure to cancel a repossession order (or all orders, if the account is placed with more than one repossession vendor). Vendor failures (recovering the vehicle, even though the order had been put on hold or canceled).

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FICO XD is Changing the Way Consumers Build Credit

Titan Consulting

The new FICO XD scoring model retrieves information from sources like the National Consumer Telecom and Utilities Exchange to collect data on payments to utility, cell phone service, internet, and cable television providers and uses the payment history data from these and other sources to build a credit score. Final Thoughts.

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Understanding Why You Have So Many Different Credit Scores

Titan Consulting

Private companies use data retrieved from credit reports, combined with public records, to predict your risk to lenders in the form of a credit score. The mix of credit accounts (loans versus lines of credit). In addition to multiple scoring models, credit score providers also create specialized scores tailored to specific loan types.

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Mortgage-Assistance Relief Firm Violates Consumer Finance Regulations

ABI

American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Staff. . In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and the subsequent rise of unfair and deceptive for profit-mortgage assistance relief services (“MARS”), Congress designated the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to employ rules regarding the regulation of MARS. [1] By: Ilayna M.