The Trump administration plans to restart federal student loan wage garnishment for defaulted borrowers in early 2026.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday he will not veto the 2026 budget passed by aldermen, conceding a historic struggle that reached the brink of a government shutdown.

More than 141,000 Arizona residents will receive letters this week notifying them that their medical debt has been relieved. So far, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs’ administration and nonprofit Undue ...

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If a bill lands in collections, the fallout escalates quickly. So, you should know what to expect and how to fix it.

With federal oversight in retreat, deep-pocketed collection companies are aggressively pursuing down-and-out consumers who ...

Artificial intelligence offers debt collection companies the opportunity to vastly improve margins while achieving higher levels of regulatory compliance and maximizing scalability, writes Ohad Samet, ...

Medical debt, or personal debt incurred from unpaid medical bills, is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. 1 Almost a third of working age U.S. adults are currently in debt because of ...

David Deeds is in financial trouble, and he's hoping a federal court in Texas can help get him out of it. Deeds, who is 62 and owes tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt from cancer treatment, ...

Student loan borrowers who haven't paid their debt now face seeing their wages garnished, Social Security benefits reduced, and more as debt collection resumes in 2025. A five-year break that began as ...

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