WASHINGTON — The federal government’s consumer financial watchdog plans to crack down on the nation’s 4,500 debt collectors with new regulations to ensure that collectors are going after the right ...

A debt collection trade group filed a complaint in federal court challenging a CFPB advisory opinion that warned debt collectors against seeking payment on unverified or potentially inflated medical ...

But the ways debt collectors can contact you are about to change. After seven years of review and deliberation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized revisions to the Fair Debt ...

Debt collectors have filed a lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) advisory opinion on medical debt collection, sayiing the agency overstepped its bounds. The CFPB's ...

If you use credit cards, owe money on a personal loan, or are paying a home mortgage, you are a "debtor." If you fall behind in repaying your creditors, or an error ...

High-rate debt has become an increasingly common part of many people's financial lives over the last decade and the economic issues that have been looming recently, like sticky (but now cooling) ...

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