However, the rate of overall consumer distress (having
any seriously delinquent debt or third party collections debt) is lower in the tristate region than the nation.
Not exact matches
Nearly 6 percent of mortgage borrowers in New Jersey have at least some
seriously delinquent mortgage
debt, nearly twice the national rate.
The Fed categorizes that
debt as «
seriously delinquent,» which makes it eligible for
debt settlement.
Unfortunately, of the $ 607 billion of
debt that is
delinquent, $ 412 billion is
seriously delinquent.
Creditors don't typically settle
debts until they're
seriously delinquent.
«Broadly speaking, a precedent of deleting adverse information once a
delinquent debt is paid would
seriously impinge on the quality of data,» a spokesman for the organization told The New York Times last year.