Not exact matches
This includes actual cash outlays for everything from salaries to the car service, plus what the city says (and the charter
disputes) are the value of services that the city contributes to the charter for utilities, building maintenance and
even «
debt service» for its share of the building.
Encore further commented, «In listening to our consumers, we found that a significant challenge with current practices that maintain negative tradelines for seven years,
even after a
debt has long been paid or resolved, is that many consumers feel their only alternative for nearer - term resolution is to
dispute the
debt in question.
We
even have Collection Agencies holding clients hostage and saying that they will only remove the
dispute verbiage if a client pays the
debt (that they may disagree with) in full!
The healthcare industry is the single biggest customer of the
debt collection industry, constituting 42 % of the collection market, versus only 29 % for the banking & finance sector.34 One stunning statistic from a 2003 Federal Reserve study is that over half of accounts reported by
debt collectors and nearly one - fifth of lawsuits that show up as negative items on credit reports are for medical
debts.35 Moreover, often medical
debts are sent to
debt collectors for reasons completely out of the consumer's control, such as
disputes between insurance companies and providers, or
even the result of the provider's failure to properly bill the insurer.
Our firm offers free case reviews at no cost to you to help protect your consumer rights anytime you: • Receive contact from a creditor or
debt collector to collect a
debt; • Receive unwanted computerized robocalls or texts to your cell phone (
even after you've told them to stop); • Notice inaccurate information on your credit report (
even after you
disputed with the credit bureaus); • Obtain a loan, lease, or purchase an item on credit; • Enter into an autopay arrangement with a creditor (i.e., gym membership, car loan, etc.); • Purchase a lemon vehicle or other consumer product; • Need help settling
debts for less than the full balance; or, • Have any other consumer issue you would like us to look into at no cost to you.
However; when it comes to
debt there are
even more laws that can be used to
dispute it, making
debt even easier to invalidate than what it takes a lawyer to get a speeding ticket dismissed.
And it gets
even better... the same
debt that's trashing your credit score right now — could be removed from your credit report entirely, after getting
disputed with
debt validation.
That said, outside of certain pernicious civil problems that plague many individuals who fall into the access to justice gap — domestic violence, evictions,
debt collections, foreclosures —
even lawyers likely generally assume that the remainder of the civil system runs relatively smoothly, with both sides of a
dispute having access to an attorney.
Up until now the onus was definitely on the consumer (you and me), and
even when we are right about something if the creditor responded to the
dispute request saying the
debt is valid the credit bureau would often side with the creditor and nothing would change about the way the
debt was reported.
In an attempt to improve or repair a credit score when preparing to finance a home purchase or refinance, many homebuyers hire «credit repair» companies who will
dispute all derogatory accounts,
even the legitimate ones, hoping that the creditor will not respond or validate the
debt with - in 30 days.