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2. Best debt relief companies for credit card debt 2024 - AOL

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   In 2024, credit card debt accounted for 6.36% of all United States household debt, up from 5.8% in 2020. Credit card balances surged during the pandemic and, by the end of 2022, Alaska led the ...

3. Credit card companies are ripping you off like never before - AOL

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   On top of that, the bureau's 2023 report to Congress on the credit-card market said companies charged consumers over $105 billion in interest in 2022, helping boost the profit margin for these ...

4. How Doctors Are Pushing Medical Credit Cards on Patients - AOL

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   In some cases, Wu says, that allows the credit-card company to garnish the customer’s wages or take money from their bank account. States have made attempts to more closely regulate medical ...

5. Bankruptcy alternatives - Wikipedia

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   Bankruptcy prevents a person's creditors from obtaining a judgment against them. With a judgment a creditor can attempt to garnish wages or seize certain types of property. . However, if a debtor has no wages (because they are unemployed or retired) and has no property, they are "judgment proof", meaning a judgment would have no impact on their financial situat

6. Garnishment - Wikipedia

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   Wage garnishment, the most common type of garnishment, is the process of deducting money from an employee's monetary compensation (including salary), usually as a result of a court order. Wage garnishments may continue until the entire debt is paid or arrangements are made to pay off the debt. [ 3 ]

7. Debt buyer (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Credit card companies purchase charged-off debts and add them to the balance of 'bait-and-switch' credit cards that consumers unknowingly purchase because they are low-rate credit cards. Consumers also complained of being verbally abused, harassed, "cursed, berated and called repeatedly despite requests to stop".