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 ...

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

The good news is, though, that unlike criminal cases, debt collection lawsuits are civil matters, and most medical debt lawsuits won't make it to trial because both parties benefit from reaching an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

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 ...

Mark Henricks has written on mortgages, real estate and investing for many leading publications. He works from Austin, Texas, where he engages in songwriting, wilderness backpacking, whitewater ...

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

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