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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 40,000 low-income veterans and their survivors receiving federal pensions may owe money because of accounting errors made over the last 12 years, but Veterans Affairs officials said they don’t ...

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 ...

Digital debt collection software has now become one of the most important assets for large enterprises managing complex, high-volume receivables.

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: "looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, ...

After a long pandemic pause, the federal government has flipped the switch back on for defaulted student loans, and the consequences are now hitting paychecks and tax refunds. Wage garnishment, tax ...

Every morning, Alaska’s court system publishes an updated list of new civil lawsuits filed across the state during the past week. And every morning, that list is dominated by debt collection cases, ...