Collection Industry News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It was a great time to be a debt collector. In August, Encore Capital, the largest debt buyer in the country, announced that it had doubled its previous record for earnings in a quarter. Finding themselves with enough money to settle old debts, people responded to collectors’ calls and letters.

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Credit Corp

MAY 30, 2023

This is known as wage garnishment. These payments are sent to the judgment creditor until your debt is paid. The Consumer Credit Protection Act caps these types of garnishments. Nonwage garnishment. If you’re retired, unemployed, or self-employed, your bank account may be garnished instead. Property liens.

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Collection Industry News

JULY 20, 2020

DEBT COLLECTORS, facing growing demands to freeze the collection of debt across the country amid the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic, are mobilizing their lobbyists to push back. In New York, residents are receiving a 30-day reprieve from the collection of state-owned medical and student debt.

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Burr Forman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Financial institutions, servicers, lenders, and debt collectors must stay up-to-date on evolving federal and state laws stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, as such laws impact all facets of consumer loan servicing and debt collection. This Bulletin serves as an update to that non-exhaustive compilation of information.

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Collection Industry News

JUNE 1, 2023

Expanding Debt Markets: Debt markets have witnessed significant expansion in recent years, both in developed and emerging economies. The growing complexity of financial products, such as credit cards, mortgages, and student loans, has led to a surge in outstanding debts.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 4, 2024

Consumers use comparison-shopping tools to evaluate the costs, features, and terms of many financial products, including credit cards, loans, and bank accounts. Areas the legislation covers include: In-Person Contact for Debt Collection: The 2021 Act prohibits debt collectors from visiting consumers’ homes to collect debts, but D.C.

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Collection Industry News

JUNE 28, 2021

“The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the many cracks that remain in our healthcare system into which people fall, sometimes plummet, regarding debt incurred for their healthcare,” the senators wrote to Dave Uejio, acting director of the CFPB, on Friday.

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Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Having debt in collections can be downright overwhelming, especially when debt collectors bombard you with dozens of phone calls. Debt collectors are notorious for harassing consumers when they seek repayment, calling excessively and threatening to take actions that may not be legal. Table of Contents.

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Troutman Sanders

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On November 1, the OCC issued a bulletin to inform banks about policy guidance that applies to commercial loans to early, expansion, and late-stage companies. Before making any loan, bank management should identify the purpose of the loan and the source of repayment. For more information, click here. On November 1, the U.S.

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Troutman Sanders

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 9, the Department of Education (DOE) announced its plan to implement an oversight strategy of federal student loan servicers that provides several pathways for identifying problems that can harm borrowers, in real-time. For more information, click here. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Better Credit Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It could only take one missed payment on your car loan, credit card, or phone bill to harm your credit score and wind up on a debt collector like Northland Group’s list. Fortunately, an entry from a debt collector is one of the most easily reversible marks, as long as you know how to confront them. Government.

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Sawin & Shea

JANUARY 18, 2023

Filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy provides you with an automatic stay that prohibits creditors from being able to take any action to collect a debt against you, such as repossessions, wage garnishment, and legal action. Additionally, your creditors will not be allowed to contact you.

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 9, 2021

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. On August 5, the Department of Education announced that it is extending the moratorium on federal student loan payments through January 31, 2022.

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 3, 2020

The bill defines “extraordinary” collection actions as selling debt to a third party, reporting the debt to a credit bureau, denying medical care, placing a lien on a property, foreclosing on a property, seizing property or funds from a bank account, commencing a civil action, and garnishing an individual’s wages. As part of S.

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Troutman Sanders

JULY 26, 2021

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. Any attempt to garnish or otherwise seize these funds to collect or attempt to collect a debt violates the AG’s Debt Collection Regulations.”

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National Service Bureau

APRIL 6, 2015

Of these, 239 involved medical collections and another 240 involved student loans. Debt collection companies who deal in healthcare collections are governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and its “privacy rule” for Protected Health Information (PHI). Government. Did you know that.

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Troutman Sanders

JUNE 15, 2021

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. This EO calls on both the federal government and the private sector to identify, deter, detect, and respond to cyber incidents.”

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 25, 2021

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. For more information, click here. To read more about the executive order, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

APRIL 19, 2021

Our bank and loan servicing clients also face novel challenges affecting their industry due to COVID-19, particularly the ever-changing rules and regulations concerning evictions and foreclosures. The company was operating without registering as a debt settlement service provider as required by Minnesota law.

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Consumer Financial Services Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Zachary Dunn October 16, 2017 The FDCPA, through section 1692d(6), prohibits a debt collector from placing telephone calls to a debtor “without meaningful disclosure of the caller’s identity.” 11 2017), the debtor, Berry, defaulted on student loans he had taken out with the US Department of Education. In Berry v.

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Troutman Sanders

JULY 27, 2020

3841, a bill that protects the stimulus funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) from being garnished by judgement creditors and debt collectors, similar to how Social Security payments are exempt from being garnished. The CARES Act offers relief for those with federal student loans.

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Debt Free Colorado

MARCH 3, 2023

For instance, it may permit the restructuring of debts due to “secured” creditors, or creditors who have an interest in assets like a mortgage or a car loan, but it typically won’t abolish those debts. However, how can you tell if your debt issue calls for such a drastic measure?

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National Service Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2015

A few months ago, we wrote a blog about debt collection horror stories, which detailed some real-life examples of debt collection gone horribly wrong. There are legal and common sense restrictions on the tactics that a collector or agency should use when contacting a debtor. How can something like this happen?

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