Credit Corp

MAY 17, 2021

But those who are struggling with debt might wonder: Can my stimulus check be garnished for credit card debt or other money owed. The short answer is yes, but it depends on the type of debt you’re dealing with. Credit Card Debt: Yes. Debt Collections: Yes.

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Account Recovery

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Judge Denies Attorney’s Fees for Defense in FDCPA Case Belief in Excessive Collection Tactics Leads CFPB to Put Small-Dollar Lender Under Federal Supervision Consumers With More Credit Card Debt than Emergency Savings Hits All-Time High: Bankrate Compliance Digest – February 26 WORTH NOTING: A security company is in hot water for showing customers (..)

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Payment Savvy

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Each state gives creditors and collection agencies varying times to file suit on unpaid and delinquent credit card debt. Dependent on the state, debt collectors are allotted a finite timeframe to file suit against consumers with past due credit card balances. State Statutes for Credit Card Debt.

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Sawin & Shea

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Bankruptcy is often a wise choice for those overwhelmed by credit card debt and looking to get back on track and rebuild their finances. With credit card debt specifically, debtors often wonder how the process works and how it will affect their ability to still use current cards or open new ones in the future.

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Sawin & Shea

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Bankruptcy is often a wise choice for those overwhelmed by credit card debt and looking to get back on track and rebuild their finances. With credit card debt specifically, debtors often wonder how the process works and how it will affect their ability to still use current cards or open new ones in the future.

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Titan Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Professional debt settlement companies can help you negotiate debt for less than the full balance owed if you find the process intimidating or overwhelming. A growing stack of bills collects and grows bigger each week. When Should You Consider a Debt Settlement Program ?

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Collection Industry News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Americans now owe a collective $1.13 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Credit card balances increased by $50 billion, or roughly 5%, in the fourth quarter of 2023, the New York Fed found.

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Collection Industry News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been tracking credit card debt since 1999. Credit card debt in the U.S. is at the highest level it’s been since then, with the total amount of debt in the third quarter of 2023 reaching around $1.08 trillion dollars. The post U.S.

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Account Recovery

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Judge Grants MSJ For Defendant in FDCPA Case; Facebook Launches Commercial Debt Collection Program appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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Account Recovery

APRIL 2, 2024

A District Court judge in Missouri has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, ruling the plaintiff lacked standing to sue after unsuccessfully attempting to have a dispute notation removed from her credit report.

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Account Recovery

MARCH 6, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has determined that the cost of collecting on unpaid credit card debts for larger companies can be covered by charging an $8 late payment fee, but will allow those issuers to charge more if they are willing to show why their collection costs are higher than that threshold.

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Collection Industry News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

consumers took on $43 billion in additional credit card debt during the second quarter of this year, ending in June. That’s more than triple the average amount of new debt households have taken on in that period since after the Great Recession of 2007-08. Newly released data from WalletHub says U.S.

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Account Recovery

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A New Jersey Appeals Court has affirmed the dismissal of a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that was dismissed by an arbitrator, with the plaintiff arguing the arbitrator refused to consider evidence and that the underlying agreement was unenforceable.

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 2, 2024

An Ohio Appeals Court has upheld a summary judgment ruling in favor of a collection operation that filed a lawsuit seeking to collect on an unpaid debt. The Background: In September 2022, the plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the defendant seeking to collect on an unpaid credit card debt.

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Account Recovery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Communications using email and text message to recover unpaid credit card debts, both before and after the debts are charged off and possibly placed with a third-party collector continue to rise, according to a report on the credit card market released yesterday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Collection Industry News

MAY 24, 2021

Credit card debt has plunged — but what if you’re still up to your neck? Credit card debt has fallen during the pandemic, with figures from credit bureau Experian showing the average debt dropped from $6,194 in 2019 to $5,313 in 2020. Source: site. Who’s dealing with the heaviest load?

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Collection Industry News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

On the heels of another rate hike this week by the Federal Reserve , credit card annual percentage rates are already near 20%, on average, and set to climb even higher. At the same time, more consumers are leaning on credit to afford increasingly expensive necessities, like food and rent. credit card debt jumps 18.5%

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Collection Industry News

MARCH 14, 2022

consumers racked up their credit card debt in 2021. Credit card debt rose last year by $74.1 This is nearly double the average annual increase in credit card debt over the past 10 years, which is just $48.5 Experts predicted that the cost of existing credit card debt will rise by $1.6

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 29, 2024

She listed 45 unsecured creditors in her schedules of assets and liabilities, including the $7,400 credit card debt at issue. However, testimony later showed that the entity listed as holding the debt, Direct Merchants Bank, was not the actual creditor but rather a registered trademark owned by Metris Companies.

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Account Recovery

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Emerging victorious from a collection lawsuit is not enough for a plaintiff to also win a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled, affirming a lower court’s decision to deny a motion for reconsideration.

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Collection Industry News

MARCH 28, 2023

More consumers are leaning on credit cards to afford increasingly expensive necessities such as food and rent. That helped propel total credit card debt to a record $930.6 That will cost credit card borrowers an extra $3.4 How to tackle credit card debt “Something has to give,” Gonzalez said.

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Collection Industry News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit card balances reached a record-setting $866 billion in the third quarter of last year, which represents a year-over-year increase of 19%. These credit market forecasts for consumers exist while 8 in 10 Americans also believe the U.S. The post Credit card debt reaches a record high among U.S.

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Collection Industry News

MARCH 31, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again, credit card debt is already at a record high, and more people are carrying debt month to month. Typically, on a national scale, it takes something pretty extraordinary for credit card balances to fall, economists agree. All rights reserved.

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Collection Industry News

JANUARY 29, 2021

51 MILLION ACCRUED ADDITIONAL CREDIT CARD DEBT SINCE BEGINNING OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC. CNN) – Most adults in the United States with credit card debt accrued more debt since the start of the pandemic. More than half reported adding to their credit card debt since last March.

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Collection Industry News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s getting more expensive to pay down credit card debt. The average interest rate on new credit card offers is now nearly 23%, according to LendingTree’s latest analysis. Credit card interest rates are as high as they’ve ever been,” Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree, tells CNBC Make It.

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Collection Industry News

MAY 27, 2023

That means consumer debt — especially variable-rate credit card debt — will get more expensive. The post What to do with your credit card debt now that the Fed raised rates again appeared first on Collection Industry News. More specifically, it was at 20.23% as of April 26.

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Account Recovery

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

After defaulting on a credit card debt, having a judgment issued against you, and then receiving four more collection letters seeking to collect on a debt, is there anyone who thinks that the next letter is going to induce an individual to repay the debt?

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Collection Industry News

APRIL 10, 2023

Interest rates on credit cards have risen substantially, with average interest rates going over 20% . Given the trends for the 175 million Americans with credit cards, the CFPB estimates that outstanding credit card debt may continue to set records and could even hit $1 trillion.

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Account Recovery

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A District Court judge in Oregon has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment after it was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because the plaintiff claimed never to have received a demand letter to recover an unpaid credit card debt and because the defendant is allowed to rely on information supplied … The (..)

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Albuquerque Law

JUNE 17, 2020

If you were to take a survey about credit card debt, it would be unlikely that you'd find any participant who could say they have never experienced it. Most people in New Mexico and throughout the country have had a balance unpaid on their credit cards at some time or another.

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Albuquerque Law

JUNE 17, 2020

If you were to take a survey about credit card debt, it would be unlikely that you'd find any participant who could say they have never experienced it. Most people in New Mexico and throughout the country have had a balance unpaid on their credit cards at some time or another. Reward cards come in handy.

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Collection Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Collections agencies buy your unpaid credit card debt from your card issuer when your balance lingers too long — but that doesn’t mean it goes away. When a collections representative from your credit card issuer calls you, it’s usually because you haven’t made at least the minimum payment for at least 30 days.

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Collection Industry News

APRIL 25, 2022

consumers said they use digital installment payment services to avoid credit card debt. Consumers turning to BNPL services to avoid credit card debt is not surprising, given that both millennial and Gen Z shoppers have complicated relationships with credit cards. Eighty percent of U.S.

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True Accord

MARCH 5, 2024

Today, about 61% of American households have credit card debt and the average credit card debt balance sits at $5,875. Plus, 71% of consumers expect personalized experiences, which means one-size-fits-all outreach isn’t going to cut it in collections.

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Collection Industry News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Sections of the report are presented as interactive graphs on the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report web page and the full report is available for download. The post Total Household Debt Reaches $17.06 Trillion in Q2 2023; Credit Card Debt Exceeds $1 Trillion appeared first on Collection Industry News.

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Account Recovery

JUNE 22, 2021

JUDGE GRANTS MOTIONS TO COMPEL, DISMISS IN FDCPA, TCPA CLASS ACTION A District Court judge in California has granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss with prejudice and motion compel arbitration in a class-action case alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act over an unpaid credit card debt.

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Better Credit Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

To remove Capital One Collections from your credit report, you first need to know who currently owns the debt. In other words, has Capital One sold your unpaid credit card debt to another collection agency, or is the debt still with Capital One? Pay to Delete the Capital One Collections.

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