If you fall behind on your bills, making a few stressful calls and negotiating with the debt collector could lead to working out a payment plan. It's not an ideal scenario, of course, but once it's ...

When a person owes money and doesn’t pay, it’s not unusual for debt collectors to get involved. It’s also not unusual for collection agencies to resort to aggressive tactics to get people to pay their ...

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 ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Americans are starting the new year buried in more than $1.2 trillion in credit card debt, with many falling behind on their bills and facing increased pressure from debt ...

That legal threat from your debt collector may not be empty. How often do they really take that action, though?

Many borrowers assume that once a debt goes unpaid long enough, the worst a debt collector can do is damage their credit score. That assumption is wrong — and for the tens of millions of Americans ...

Medical debt has become a serious issue nationwide, despite recent changes to credit reporting rules that have removed medical collections in amounts under $500 from consumer credit reports. As health ...