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Collections

1. English: The Fair Debt Law - Consumers in Debt Series
   A fact sheet that explains the "fair debt law," the law that regulates what actions a collection agency can take in trying to collect a debt from you.
2. Spanish: Controle y Supere el Endeudamiento
   Hoja informativa ilustrada que habla de la importancia de controlar la deuda para que no resulte un problema. Explica las señales de peligro de la deuda y cómo reducirla. También explica agencias de cobro, asesoría…
3. Spanish: Agencia Recaudadora
   Un folleto que explica cuáles son sus derechos cuando trata con una agencia recaudadora de deudas. Describe los abusos por estas agencias, y le otorga respuestas a preguntas como si usted puede ser encarcelado por…
4. English: Collection Agency - Consumers in Debt Series
   A fact sheet that explains what your rights are when dealing with a collection agency. It describes collection abuse, and answers such questions as whether you can be jailed for not paying a debt and…
5. Helpdesk: Collections abuse
   Two laws protect consumers from abusive debt collectors: the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a federal law; and the California Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The federal law applies only to third party collection agencies,…
6. Books: Solve Your Money Troubles
   Everything you need to get out of debt and repair your credit, from the Nolo Press, the pre-eminient self-help legal publisher. Feeling overwhelmed by your debts? If you’re ready to regain your financial freedom, this…
7. Press: Debt relief peddlers put consumers in bigger hole
   For the companies that promise relief to Americans confronting swelling credit card balances, these are days of lucrative opportunity. So lucrative, that an industry trade association, the United States Organizations for Bankruptcy Alternatives, recently convened…
8. Press: Robo-signing at debt collection companies
   When Michael Gazzarato took a job that required him to sign hundreds of affidavits in a single day, he had one demand for his employer: a much better pen. They tried to get me to…