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• Be wary of credit card debt settlement offers, prepare a plan to cut debt

  Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 15:43

  BY SUSAN TOMPORFREE PRESS COLUMNIST FreeP.com  A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a mom who was worried about how to best help her unemployed daughter deal with credit card bills. "Many years ago, we helped our son get out of debt by ha...

• Council Approves Legislation to Hold Process Servers Accountable

  Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 15:16

  By KAREN ZRAICK Published: March 25, 2010 The New York Times It is a fairly unglamorous and lightly regulated task: serving legal papers to people who have been sued. Debt collection agencies and lawyers often farm out the work to private companies, w...

• Accounts Receivables Management Industry Calls On Congress to Keep FTC As Exclusive Regulator

  Created: Friday, 19 March 2010 11:59

  ARM trade groups come together to insist that the FTC remain as the regulator for debt purchasers and debt collectors. WASHINGTON -- The four organizations representing the nation's accounts receivables management industry are calling on Congress...

• After hiring debt-settlement firm, Nutley mom found bills piling higher

  Created: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:04

  By Karin Price Mueller/The Star-Ledger March 09, 2010, 7:00AM Sharon Lemma Bozza charged her way to big-time debt. When she and her husband split in 2003, the money troubles began. She received child support for their three children, but it wasn’t en...

• What would a new consumer protection agency do?

  Created: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:41

  By CANDICE CHOI (AP) – 1 day ago  Associated Press   NEW YORK — Watch out for consumers, police financial products. It sounds like a simple mandate for a proposed new consumer protection agency. Still, lawmakers on Capitol Hill c...

• Five Minutes With: Elizabeth Warren

  Created: Friday, 05 March 2010 10:12

  http://www.campusprogress.org/5mw/5124/elizabeth-warren  Elizabeth Warren This leading consumer protection advocate talks about a potential new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, how student lending can be fixed, and what young people can do for bet...

• SC residents to receive refund from CA debt settlement company

  Created: Friday, 05 March 2010 10:01

  http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12086162 SOUTH CAROLINA (WMBF) – More than 360 customers in South Carolina will be receiving a refund from a California debt settlement company after entering into a contract with the company at the end of 205...