As the credit card bills pile up and the variable interest rates on your cards climb higher, it's easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt that you can't easily overcome. And, when you add the ...

If you've taken out a personal loan, used a credit card or bought a home with a mortgage at any point in the last couple of years, you're likely well aware of how challenging today's borrowing ...

When debt piles up, it can start to feel like there's no way out. After all, credit card minimum payments barely chip away at your balances, the interest charges keep climbing, and if you're behind on ...

The math is brutal. At an average interest rate of 22%, all it takes is a revolving credit card balance of a few thousand dollars to find yourself in serious trouble, especially as the interest ...

The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that a debt collection program paused during March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic would resume immediately. The Treasury Offset ...

In a February 2024 report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) developed recommendations for the IRS to bolster the results and increase the equity of its private debt collection (PDC) ...

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