Category Archives: consumer debt

consumer debt

Can a Credit card company take your car away?

Many con­sumers may not real­ize that ignor­ing their credit card bills can have much larger ram­i­fi­ca­tions then sim­ply bad credit.  Recently in Mass­a­chu­setts as well as many other states, credit card com­pa­nies and other unse­cured cred­i­tors have been fight­ing back, although in many cases unlaw­fully, by tak­ing pos­ses­sion of their […]

consumer debt

Can a Credit card company take your car away?

Many con­sumers may not real­ize that ignor­ing their credit card bills can have much larger ram­i­fi­ca­tions then sim­ply bad credit.  Recently in Mass­a­chu­setts as well as many other states, credit card com­pa­nies and other unse­cured cred­i­tors have been fight­ing back, although in many cases unlaw­fully, by tak­ing pos­ses­sion of their […]

consumer debt

Debt forgiven but not forgotten

This arti­cle points out that hav­ing a debt set­tle­ment may end up cost­ing you more money than antic­i­pated - the IRS con­sid­ers …Read the Rest

consumer debt

So long debt settlement, hello bankruptcy? | Interest.com

Like most of us, find­ing a solu­tion to my debt prob­lems has led to sev­eral dif­fer­ent options. Debt set­tle­ment firms have plas­tered their info on the Inter­net — …Read the Rest

consumer debt

Do It Yourself Debt Settlement

This site rein­forces the con­cept that the major­ity of debt set­tle­ment com­pa­nies are a scam — employ­ees at one firm have been …Read the Rest

consumer debt

Debt Settlement Firms: What Are They Good For? Absolutely Nothing! (Good Gawd)

This arti­cle out­lines some issues when deal­ing with a debt set­tle­ment com­pany. Although the final analy­sis of this arti­cle is …Read the Rest

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Challenging a Charge on your Credit Card

     The process and pro­ce­dures to dis­pute an inac­cu­rate charge on a credit card is well doc­u­mented and sup­ported by Mass­a­chu­setts & Fed­eral Laws. Con­sumer laws have been pro­tect­ing indi­vid­u­als from wrong­ful actions of cred­i­tors.  There are cer­tain steps an indi­vid­ual must take to take advan­tage of the law’s con­sumer pro­tec­tion: con­tact­ing the cred­i­tor, waiting […]