Articles Tagged ‘collection companies’
Your credit history. It could be your worst enemy, or your best friend. Most of the time it’s like a nasty mother in law coming to stay at your house. You know that she’s coming, and that’s always bad news, but you are too afraid to ask or even consider how long she will be staying. Even though that was the worst comparison ever, read on to see how long negative marks remain on your credit history!
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Keywords: Layoffs and pay cuts pushed more people towards bankruptcy last year, and experts say that the situation will most likely not iget better until the unemployment issue igets better. In Wisconsin, bankruptcy filings raised to 30 percent in 2009. This came on top of a 35 percent increase in the preceding year.
Tax season is coming and so are the cyber crooks. IRS scams are being spread around, the latest one involving email that appears to be legitimate from the IRS that states that you can get your tax refund on a Visa or a Mastercard. It asks for your credit card number, your social security number, credit card expiration dates, card verification value numbers, amount shown on your tax return, filing status and other personal information.
More than 200 Scranton taxpayers may have received a letter from a collection agency that they did not deserve. The notices are for garbage fees that might have actually been paid. According to officials, the garbage bill for 2009 could be at fault for more than 200 collection notices sent to city taxpayers in error last week. That is what they believe.
One of the main benefits to working with many collection agencies is that you only pay them when they successfully recover your money. This means if the collection agency fails to collect money on your behalf, you don’t owe a penny. Debt collection agents operate on a commission, usually collecting about one third of the commission.
