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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us …

The Department of Education — and some of the private collection agencies it uses to collect on unpaid student loans — are understaffed and that is causing a customer service problem for individuals who are seeking information about why their tax refunds are being withheld to cover unpaid debts, according …

A District Court judge in Alabama has reduced the punitive damages awarded by a jury to a plaintiff whose credit history was mis-reported to $490,000, from $3 million. A copy of the ruling in Younger v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., can be accessed by clicking here. The plaintiff had a …

In a case first highlighted by Smith Debnam a District Court judge in New York has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by indicating that settling a debt for less than the full amount “may” have tax …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a number of changes to its advisory boards yesterday, and announced it is looking for experts in debt collections, among other areas. Invitations to apply to the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board, Credit Union Advisory Council, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council are …

The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us …

A District Court judge in Ohio has granted default judgment in favor of the plaintiff and awarded $23,000 in damages and attorney’s fees after a collection agency was accused of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but did not answer a complaint, the application …

As of 5:58pm ET yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was officially on the clock for releasing its proposed debt collection rule. The CFPB yesterday released its annual report about how it enforced the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and right there on Page 2 of the report, it says, …

In a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled law firms that perform non-judicial foreclosures do not meet the definition of debt collectors under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in a case that may eliminate thousands of similar homeowner lawsuits across the country. A copy of the ruling in …

After 35 years in the credit and collection industry, Bonnie Baker got married a few months ago and became Bonnie Allen. Regardless of her name, Bonnie has flourished during her career in the industry, climbing her way from programmer to the owner of four companies. Read on to learn more …

The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us …

A proposed settlement has been reached in a case in which the financing unit of Nissan Motors was accused of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by calling the cell phones of individuals who did not have accounts with the creditor using an automatic telephone dialing system without first obtaining …

Another mainstream media has shined its spotlight on surprise medical bills, but this time naming a collection agency that had the audacity to try and collect on debts that were placed with it. Nobody argues that surprise medical bills aren’t a problem. For those who aren’t aware, a surprise medical …

A District Court judge in Indiana has granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it allegedly did not explicitly detail the relationship between itself and the current creditor. A copy of the …

Scott Weltman, the managing partner of Weltman Weinberg & Reis, recently testified before the House Financial Services Committee about his firm’s experience being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Weltman won its case when a jury ruled the agency did not prove its case. Sharing his thoughts about his …