Please click here to register. Mark Belongia's practice focuses on consumer lending regulatory compliance. He regularly assists institutions to review and improve their private student financing ...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday ordered Commonwealth Financial Systems, a debt collection agency specializing in medical debt, to shut down as a result of what CFPB determined were ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its annual report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act highlighting consumer complaints about unpaid medical debt. Fresh off a ...
Similar to the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), California’s “Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act” (RFDCPA) has historically regulated the manner in which debt collectors ...
Consumers across the country are being bombarded with intimidating and sometimes aggressive debt collection calls, and federal data shows complaints about debt collection more than doubled from 2024 ...
Disputing collections debt can protect your credit, but only if you know when it actually makes sense to do so.
US HOW TO HANDLE THOSE CALLS. YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, BUT AS A CONSUMER, YOU’VE GOT A BOATLOAD OF RIGHTS, RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT WORK IN YOUR FAVOR WHEN DEALING WITH DEBT COLLECTORS. A VIEWER ...
Scammers use texts, calls, emails and letters to create a false sense of urgency about debt repayment. Always ask for detailed information about the debt and the debt collector’s contact details to ...