America Saves Week is coming up on Feb. 23. This annual event helps thousands of us start out on a regular program of saving money toward our goals. We’ve all got goals and plans for the future, and a lot of them cost money. Parents, take the America Saves pledge and get started on saving [...]
Today, we’re announcing that, as part of Project Catalyst, we’ll be working with American Express to evaluate practices to promote regular saving habits among prepaid card users. Project Catalyst is our initiative to encourage innovations that make financial products more consumer-friendly. The research will focus on saving behavior among low- and moderate-income prepaid card users [...]
Debt collection is the top complaint we’ve received since September 2013. Out of all debt types, medical collections make up 52 percent of collection accounts on credit reports, far outpacing all other types of debt. Medical collections are so widespread, that an estimated 43 million consumers with an account in collection have medical debt. We [...]
