Debt collectors rarely disappear on their own. Old balances can be sold, resold, and pursued in different ways for years, ...

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(NewsNation) — American households owe a record $18.4 trillion, and federal data shows complaints about aggressive debt collection have surged over the past year. The Federal Trade Commission logged ...

After years of warning taxpayers that the IRS will never cold call you to collect a tax debt, things are about to change as the IRS begins handing over some of its debt-collection work to private ...

DAVENPORT, Fla. – Debt collection calls are reaching new highs across the U.S. in 2025, with a significant number of those calls flagged as abusive or threatening. “We’re going to arrest you. We’re ...

No business can prevent collection attempts against all their employees. When an employee starts falling behind, debt collectors begin looking for ways to contact the employee at work to speak with ...

Johnson has said the sale of debt owed to the city is “immoral,” on the grounds that “working people and poor people are ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Thursday that it will immediately resume debt collection activities through the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) that had been paused since 2020. The ...

Having watched Chicago’s City Council rebel against his budget — to some extent, anyway — Mayor Brandon Johnson is now ...

The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, ...