Sentences with phrase «provider collecting the debt»

A debt collector could be the original credit or service provider collecting the debt themselves or a debt collection agency acting on the creditor's behalf.

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Thus, «these huge debts need to be settled before effective delivery of services can be carried out» because these debts mean that the sanitation service providers argue, among other things, that «they needed fuel, they needed tires, they need to pay their workers so they were not able to collect the waste regularly the way we desire.»

Fact: Roughly half of all collections tradelines that appear on credit reports are reported by debt collectors seeking to collect on medical bills claimed to be owed to hospitals and other medical providers.

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), roughly half of all collections that appear on credit reports are reported by debt collectors seeking to collect on medical bills claimed to be owed to hospitals and other medical providers.

The change is that companies offering debt relief services over the phone can not collect advance fees from you before settling or reducing your debt, before having an agreement for debt management or other services in place, or until you've made at least one payment to a creditor as a result of a plan negotiated by the debt relief provider.

prohibit debt relief service providers from collecting a fee for services until a debt has been settled, altered, or reduced;

Thus, so long as the use of debt collectors is consistent with the regulatory requirements (such as, providers obtain the proper consents, the disclosure is of the minimum amount of information necessary to collect the debt, the provider or health plan enter into a business associate agreement with the debt collector, etc.), relying upon debt collectors to obtain reimbursement for the provision of health care would not be prohibited by the regulation.