The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday it has ordered medical debt collector Commonwealth Financial Systems of Dickson City, Pa., to cease operations and pay a $95,000 penalty for ...

Republicans on the House Government Oversight Committee approved the committee’s report Tuesday recommending an independent audit and transfer of the judicial branch’s court debt collection system to ...

The federal government has started moving defaulted student loan accounts from the Department of Education over to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 40,000 low-income veterans and their survivors receiving federal pensions may owe money because of accounting errors made ...

With student loan collections moving to the Treasury, the 7.7M borrowers in default face new risks. Learn about the Treasury ...

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: "looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, ...

The tax office is one of the most prolific users of external labour, spending more than $316m in 2024-25. Critics say this has led to a ‘two-class system’ ...

Every morning, Alaska’s court system publishes an updated list of new civil lawsuits filed across the state during the past week. And every morning, that list is dominated by debt collection cases, ...