Complaints against Debt Management Companies

By: Jennifer Bailey
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:17:36
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Complaints against debt management companies can occur at any time. Most debt management companies make all efforts to overcome complaints against them. Many debt management companies have complaint clearing sections to deal with the doubts and complaints of clients. Studies reveal that complaints against debt management companies and agencies were skyrocketing in the last decade, but have considerably fallen in recent years.

Credit reporting is one of the major complaints against debt management companies. Many faults can occur in credit reporting. Most of the complaints are against companies that bill themselves as credit counselors. Some companies are guilty of shady services.

Studies regarding complaints against debt management companies by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have concluded that most of the complaints occur in three areas. They are unawareness that the lower monthly payments will normally result in an increase in the size of the amount to be repaid, misleading claims and failure in giving sufficient prominence to the warnings. Almost half the states in the Unites States have adopted some kind of licensing requirements for all debt management companies. But nonprofit agencies are excluded from these requirements. They charge high fees from the clients and are irresponsible in their duties. This leads to increasing complaints against debt management companies.

There are many fraudulent companies with shady operators, who make attractive offers but cheat people in the end. By the time customers become aware of these shady deals, the vendors might have disappeared from the scene. A few fake debt management companies accept money from debtors, but do not pay off correctly to creditors. Debtors may not know of it until the creditors call them and demand the missed payments. This will also lower the debtor?s credit score. Such cases occur frequently and many Americans are unsatisfied with most of the deals. The consequence is that more and more people are now walking away from debt counseling and management companies.

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