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Ohio city hopes to collect nearly $15,000

Between $13,000 to $14,000 is expected to be collected by the city of Aberdeen, Ohio, from residents with unpaid court fines, the Ledger Independent reports.The Aberdeen Police Department (APD) has threatened to sign with an outside debt collection

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Report: Student debt to hit 7.7 percent of U.S. debt by 2020

Recent research by the Council on Foreign Relations predicted outstanding student debt to total $1.4 trillion by 2020, accounting for 7.7 percent of gross national debt. If student loan debt does continues to rise at the fast rate, debt collection

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Settlement reached between PSE&G and consumers

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), New Jersey's largest utility, recently agreed not to send consumers' payment history to consumer credit reporting agency Experian, The Record reports.The initiative to report consumer

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Businesses owe Pennsylvania city more than $800,000

There are more than 30 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, businesses that have yet to repay funds loaned to them under a small business lending program introduced by former mayor Stephen R. Reed, the Patriot-News reports.The loans were issued through

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RFID a leading cause of credit card identity theft

By 2016, it's estimated that one billion radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled credit and debit cards susceptible to electronic pickpocketing will be issued to cardholders, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National

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A few ways to find your debtor's details

 If you are having trouble contacting a debtor, you may have the wrong details on their address, phone number and email. Here are a number of ways you can search for a debtor's personal details legally. Postal office and bank A lot

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