Many Americans—about half—carry credit card debt from month to month, and about 53 percent of them have been in debt for more than a year, according to a survey by Bankrate.com. Households with credit ...

VIENNA — Consumer Credit Counseling of the Mid-Ohio Valley will raise money for its services with “Murder at the Masquerade,” its fourth annual mystery dinner. Slated for 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at ...

AUSTIN, TX AND BOSTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / June 9, 2025 / Dealing With Debt (DWD), a nonprofit social platform dedicated to reducing financial stress and building consumer confidence, today ...

Getting out of debt can be overwhelming, especially when you don’t know where to start or what advice to follow. A nonprofit credit counseling agency can help you develop a strategy to improve your ...

While AI can initiate conversations that may lead to solutions, it cannot negotiate lower interest rates like a human counselor. Lisa Gurganus emphasized the importance of confronting debt: "The fact ...

Credit card debt this year is at an all-time high, and more and more cash-strapped consumers add to those numbers every month. If you are getting deeper and deeper in debt on your credit cards, you ...

What do you do when your face to face interactions with consumers comes to a startling halt and your counseling appointments drop drastically overnight? This is exactly what happened when the pandemic ...

No sooner had I read the latest statistics on consumer debt in the U.S. (also known as household debt, credit card and other unsecured debt) than a message washed up on my desk echoing the same matter ...

No sooner had I read the latest statistics on consumer debt in the United States (also known as household debt, credit card and other unsecured debt) than a message washed up on my desk echoing the ...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (the Act). The Act made sweeping changes to the former bankruptcy law and is well known to ...