The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday it has ordered medical debt collector Commonwealth Financial Systems of Dickson City, Pa., to cease operations and pay a $95,000 penalty for ...

This week’s Business page in The American is dominated by a lengthy excerpt from ProPublica’s landmark study on racial disparities in debt collection, “The Color of Debt.” Reporters for the public ...

Republicans on the House Government Oversight Committee approved the committee’s report Tuesday recommending an independent audit and transfer of the judicial branch’s court debt collection system to ...

A single ambulance ride. That's all it might take for a Michigan family to fall into debt they can't shake — thousands of dollars from one night in the emergency room, owed to a hospital they thought ...

WASHINGTON — If you owe a debt, you should make every effort to pay it. After all, you’ve enjoyed the services or goods that your debt bought. And companies have a right to try to collect or even sell ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. We have completed 99 % of the process of setting debt to zero for ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Belinda was ...

Named Employee of the Year at a major Kazakhstan bank, she built collection automation systems years before the country’s ...