Homeowners aren’t the only ones enjoying property prices hitting near historic highs. Debt collectors are, too, by enforcing collection on “zombie mortgages.” The loans earned the “zombie” moniker from mortgages that homeowners believed were settled or paid off years before ...

Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought has requested a $75.8 million transfer from the Federal Reserve to fund the CFPB through the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, i.e., through the end of June 2026. What the $75.8M request is The ...

Hospitals are losing an exorbitant amount of revenue from final claim denials and uncollected medical bills from patients, according to a new report from Kodiak Solutions. The healthcare technology company released its inaugural “State of the healthcare revenue cycle” report ...

The U.S. Department of Education said one year ago that collections on defaulted student loans would restart, but it has still not fully done it. Federal student loan borrowers have not faced regular collections since before the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning ...

In data released Tuesday (March 31) by the agency in its 2025 Consumer Response Annual Report, of the more than 6.6 million complaints filed in 2025, roughly 5.8 million were tied to credit or consumer reporting, accounting for 88% of ...

In yet another setback for the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) prior express written consent requirement applicable to robocalls and robotexts (i.e., autodialed and artificial/pre-recorded voice calls and autodialed texts), on March 20, 2026 in Bradley v. Dentalplans.com et al., the U.S ...

The “plan to cut staff in half” refers to a new CFPB reduction‑in‑force proposal the Trump administration filed with the D.C. Circuit that would shrink the Bureau to roughly 556 employees—about half its current headcount and around one‑third of its ...

The phrase refers to a growing pattern in which some U.S. student loan borrowers relocate overseas and then stop making payments, effectively allowing their loans to go delinquent or into default while they live abroad. What is happening A subset ...

Here's what the FCC's FY2027 budget submission reveals: FCC FY2027 Budget Request: Key Details The numbers: The FCC requested $398.3 million in budget authority from regulatory fee revenue for FY2027, a 4.3% reduction from the FY2026 enacted level of $416.1 ...