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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today signed an information sharing agreement, creating a formal partnership between the two agencies to better protect American families and to address practices that harm workers in the “gig economy” and other labor markets.
Consumers with issues paying their bills every month are carrying balances on their credit cards equal to 157% of their savings — meaning even if they used their savings to pay down all of their credit card bills, they would still not be able to pay them off in full — yet another sign of … The post Consumers Making Adjustments to Credit Card Habits; Savings Barely Able to Cover Balances for Some Groups first appeared on AccountsRecovery.net.
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If you’ve already contacted your delinquent debtor to persuade them to pay but they won’t, you don’t need a collection agency. All a collection agency can do for you is contact the debtor over and over until something happens. That’s no way to get paid. At the Law Offices of Alan M. Cohen LLC, we don’t just take the next step and get a judgment. We take all the steps until either you get paid or no one could get you paid.
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