A Review of Collection Agents

By: Morgan Hamilton
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:15:20
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If you have ever been seriously tardy in submitting payment for a bill you may have had to interact with collection agents. They can many times be a nuisance as they will mail many letters and make repeated calls to your home or place of employment. The best thing to do to avoid being visited by collection agents is to pay your bills on time. I know that's an oversimplification and stating the incredibly obvious, but it is the truth.

There are rules and place that monitor the actions of collection agents. It is called the Collection Agents Act and it polices collection agencies. All businesses that use collection agents have to adhere to the guidelines of the Act. If that business fails to follow the rules that are laid out by the Collection Agents Act they may have to forfeit their bond, have their collection license suspended or possibly cancelled, and may have their bond forfeited in order to pay compensation to those who suffered a financial loss.

As it is spelled out in the Act, people employed in this profession are strictly for bed and from doing various actions. The collection agents are not allowed to collect more money than what is owed or add any additional fees to the debt of the debtor. They can not make the debtor pay without disclosing pertinent information about the debtor including the name of the creditor, the balance that the debtor must pay, and the identity and authority of the party who authorized the request for the payment. The collection agents are forbidden from using the telephone to contact debtors before 8 in the morning or after 9 at night and can not contact anyone on Sundays or holidays.

They are required to provide factual information as not to mislead the person who they are attempting to solicit payment from. A debtor’s employer can only be contacted to verify that the debtor is employed by said employer or if payments that have been specified by order of a court to garnish wages from the employees paycheck. Agents also have no legal course of action and are forbidden from sending the debtor any documents that look like legal court documents. This is frowned on by the court and it is seen as deception.

As long as the collection agents don't violate any of the stipulations they may get in touch with you by ways of phone, in person, or by mail. A great many of the time agents will have to attempt to contact the individual repeatedly before the issue is resolved. It is their responsibility to make sure that the debtor makes good and pays the pills that they owe to the company that hires agent. Collection agents don't exactly have the greatest of reputations for understandable reasons. They can at times seem quite annoying but it really is best to realize that I have a job to do and as long as they don't overstep their bounds it is reasonable to assume continue to go after you until your debt is satisfied. This can of course all be avoided by simply paying your bills in a timely fashion and you will never have to deal with collection agents.

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