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22 Feb 2016, 8:04 am by John L. Culhane, Jr.
  Also described in the letter are the FTC’s actions against two debt buyers in which the FTC alleged that the companies, during the course of trying to sell debt portfolios, exposed consumers’ personal information on a public website geared to members of the debt buying and collection industry. [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 8:04 am by Shawn Wright
When the debt settlement company has amassed a sizable amount of money in your account, they will begin to “settle” your debts. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 1:34 pm by Barbara S. Mishkin
While the legislative history indicates that the amendments are intended to address the collection of a deceased family member’s debts, they are drafted more broadly to prohibit “principal creditors and debt collection agencies” from: (a) making any representation that a person is required to pay the debt of a family member in a way that contravenes the FDCPA; and (b) making any misrepresentation about the family member’s obligation to pay such… [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 1:34 pm by Barbara S. Mishkin
While the legislative history indicates that the amendments are intended to address the collection of a deceased family member’s debts, they are drafted more broadly to prohibit “principal creditors and debt collection agencies” from: (a) making any representation that a person is required to pay the debt of a family member in a way that contravenes the FDCPA; and (b) making any misrepresentation about the family member’s obligation to pay such… [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 11:01 am by Mike Rappaport
Years of tuition increases have made it a fast way to get buried in debt. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 7:43 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
However, because the resulting faster growth would increase federal spending on interest on the debt and on programs connected to inflation, the additional economic effects would reduce the ten-year debt impact of the bill by between $27 billion and $171 billion. [read post]
12 Sep 2023, 6:00 am by Kyle Hulehan
The post How to Rein in the National Debt appeared first on Tax Foundation. [read post]
16 Nov 2005, 1:09 pm
Citing a 1978 court decision which allowed national banks to charge interest rates determined in their home state, the article examines where our current debt-heavy culture spawned. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:11 am by Joseph C. McDaniel
Washington has built a gigantic load of debt that seems to worry some people, and apparently Washington wants to keep spending, and adding to the that debt. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Social Security suspends stale-debt collection program is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 May 2010, 6:08 am
If you are a Consumer who is being hounded and harassed by a third party debt collector, you have the right under the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to get them to stop the harassment. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 8:25 am by Saxon Gilmore
  The person's estate is responsible for paying the debt. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 9:43 am
Venture debt is interesting — and puzzling. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 5:24 pm
The bottom of that letter contained a standard disclaimer that the letter was an attempt to collect on a debt and that Litton was a debt collector. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 4:10 am
One of the other goals of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is to promote fairness in debt collecting. [read post]
4 May 2012, 5:54 am by Pamela
The cancellation of debt income is the debt forgiven less the FMV of the property relinquished, so your COD income is only $150,000 You have an additional item to report on your tax return, the “sale” of the property. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 9:11 am by Catherine Earnshaw-Hobbs
Zombie debt is debt that you don't owe anymore because it's been discharged in bankruptcy, the statute of limitations has run or you paid the debt. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 6:44 am by Ezra Rosser
New Op-Ed: Tara Siegel Bernard & Karl Russell, The New Toll of American Student Debt in 3 Charts, NYTimes.com, July 11, 2018. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 8:17 am
Debt relief agencies are prohibited by BAPCPA from advising consumer debtors to incur debt in contemplation of bankruptcy. [read post]
28 May 2009, 7:46 am
Cooper and his companies are permanently barred from engaging in the debt collection business and acting as brokers that buy and resell portfolios of consumer debt. [read post]