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

Good debt can increase your net worth and build in value over time. Bad debt is money spent on items that lose their value. Balancing good and bad debt is important to your financial wellbeing. While ...

Wondering if your debt load is too high? Here's how to gauge it — and what else you should keep in mind right now.

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported U.S. household debt increased to $17.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023. Credit card debt, mortgages and auto loans led to those debt figures. But ...

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Johnson has said the sale of debt owed to the city is “immoral,” on the grounds that “working people and poor people are ...

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. If you’re a business owner extending credit to customers, then you’ve likely had an experience with bad debt or will at some ...

Hospital bad debt charity increased 10% year to date in 2025, driven by Medicaid changes and regional growth, impacting hospital finances nationwide.

LendingTree’s study involved analyzing around 400,000 credit reports of users in July through September for 2024 and 2025, ...

Determining whether a debt has become worthless always is a question of fact which requires consideration of all pertinent evidence—including the debtor’s financial condition and the value of any ...