The consumer protection bureau also released a report on Tuesday that's based on the analysis of more than 2,300 private student loan complaints and more than 1,300 student
debt collection complaints received by the agency during the previous six months.
Although impacts on credit reports are not categorized by the CFPB, they appear to be a significant source of complaints: 1,810 complaint narratives, or 35 percent of
medical debt collection complaints contained in the database, contain the text «credit report.»
During that time period, the Bureau handled about 7,700 private student loan complaints, and 2,300
debt collection complaints related to private and federal student loans.
Debt collection complaints are prevalent at the state and national level, and range from harassment and wrongful threats of criminal charges to persistent efforts to collection debts not owed by the More»