It's been a challenging year for the consumer watchdog agency, as the Trump administration has tried to deny it funding and ...

The Education Department has temporarily paused a plan to seize tax refunds and begin garnishing the wages of borrowers who ...

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, ...

The era of student loan leniency in the US is officially over. During the Covid-19 emergency, mandatory payments on federal ...

The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday, a long-promised move that ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Monday that 141,000 more Arizonans have had their medical debt erased. The state allocated American Rescue Plan funding to the nonprofit Undue Medical ...

Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action on ...

When a debt goes unpaid for long enough, it can move through a series of hands, first the original creditor, then a third-party debt collector and sometimes even multiple agencies afterward. Each ...

Richard Andreano Jr., John Culhane Jr. As required by amendments to the FDCPA made by Section 1089 of Dodd Frank, the CFPB recently released its annual report to Congress on FDCPA compliance. We note ...

With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who are struggling with record levels of credit card debt. Meanwhile, consumer ...

Perhaps compliance departments at auto lenders and other companies involved in financial services had something extra to be thankful for last week. Just ahead of Thanksgiving, the Consumer Financial ...