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2. Consumer bureau orders debt collection agency to shut down ...

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   The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday ordered Commonwealth Financial Systems, a debt collection agency specializing in medical debt, to shut down as a result of what CFPB determined ...

3. How to pay off a debt in collections

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   2. Know your debt collection rights. Educate yourself about your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This federal law regulates how creditors and debt collectors can ...

4. Many insured older Americans face unpaid medical bills

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   In the past, this debt could have stayed on credit reports for up to seven years. They also stopped reporting medical debt in collections below $500, or medical debt in collections for under one year.

5. Medical debt - Wikipedia

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   In 2018, two local women from the Finger Lakes region in New York partnered with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt after fundraising for the purpose of debt collection for debt forgiveness. The nonprofit looks for bundled packages of debt from first or third party agencies which the group negotiates to purchase at discounted prices (pennies on the ...

6. Undue Medical Debt - Wikipedia

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   Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, [1] is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity [2] focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. [3] Founded in 2014 by former debt collection executives Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico, [4] the charity purchases portfolios of income-qualifying medical debt from debt collectors and healthcare providers, and then relieves the debt. [5]

7. Fair debt collection - Wikipedia

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   U.S. state laws on fair debt collection generally fall into two categories: laws which require persons who are collecting debts from consumers to be licensed, registered or bonded in order to collect from consumers in their states, and laws that protect consumers from specific unfair practices by debt collectors, which may include collection agencies and sometimes original creditors. [2]