Paying off credit card debt would certainly qualify as a "need," but you can also leave room for other priorities, Burnette ...

Unpaid debts and accounts in collections will stay on your credit report for seven years. Removing old debt from your credit ...

Americans borrowed an estimated $74 billion for medical bills last year, according to a West Health-Gallup survey. And now an ...

The Biden administration introduced before leaving a rule to exclude medical debt from credit reports, does it still stand ...

ANSWER: After attempting to collect a debt through traditional means (calls, letters, etc.), a creditor or collector may ...

Have you ever checked your credit score right after making payments, only to find it hasn't changed? It only natural to ...

The United States is on track to hit its statutory debt ceiling — the so-called X-date when the country runs short of money ...

If lawmakers do not raise or suspend the debt limit before all extraordinary measures are exhausted, the government could ...

The drop-dead date for Congress to suspend or raise the debt limit and prevent the government from defaulting on its ...

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As delinquent student loans begin showing up on credit reports for the first time since the pandemic, millions of borrowers ...

The state’s higher education commission continues to struggle with recordkeeping issues in the face of high employee turnover ...