Dealing with debt issues can be overwhelming, especially if your debt has been turned over to a debt collector to deal with. When your debt slips into collections, those simple monthly bills that you ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Nearly 71 million Americans have debts that have gone into collections. So, what do you do if a collector calls? Don't panic, Nina Pineda has your consumer bill of rights. One of ...

A debt collector may be able to freeze your bank account, but if it's a joint account, the rules get complicated.

Dealing with a call from someone claiming to be a debt collector can be challenging. It’s not always easy to tell whether the ...

Debt collection calls have increased by over 200% in the past year, with over 194,000 of them being reported as fraudulent or abusive and threatening, according to data from the Federal Trade ...

Over the past few years, high borrowing costs, rising prices on essentials and other economic hurdles have forced many Americans to lean more heavily on their credit cards to cover their expenses. But ...

As the government resumes collection on debt from millions of default student loans, experts warn scammers could be looking to take advantage of borrowers. So if you get *** call from *** debt ...

The normally tough-talking, tough-love-dispensing Dave Ramsey seems like an unflappable kind of guy — the type who can let quips at his expense roll off his back. But he wasn’t always that way. Before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fake debt collection is one of many all-too-familiar text scams. However, sometimes scammers will use an existing business's name ...