Pay-for-delete promises to erase collection debt from your credit report, but the results of this strategy can vary.

Paying off collections improves your finances, but what happens to the negative mark on your credit report?

WalletHub collected data from the end of 2025 and ranked the states with the most and least debt collection accounts.

Disputing collections debt can protect your credit, but only if you know when it actually makes sense to do so.

If you’re drowning in debt, debt relief could be a way to reduce some of the burden, or at least give you a more manageable payment plan. The process, which is also frequently called “debt settlement, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released a research report that found consumers’ credit scores may be overly penalized for medical debt that goes into collections and shows up on ...

NEW YORK — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. After 90 days of non-payment ...

Get to know the research on debt collection lawsuits, racial disparities in judgments, and a big slice of consumer debt: ...