Freedom Debt Relief reports veterans can access various debt relief programs, including grants that don't require repayment, ...

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Tens of thousands of borrowers may be about to receive automatic student loan forgiveness after the U.S. Department of Education missed a key processing deadline.

The weight of carrying debt month after month can be extremely heavy, and, over time, it can have a real impact on your financial health. Whether it's from medical bills that piled up after an ...

The Ninth Circuit, affirming the Tax Court, recently held that to deduct a nonbusiness bad debt, the debt must be “wholly worthless,” and if the debtor reports cancellation-of-debt (COD) income, the ...

A bankruptcy judge in Buffalo has wiped out the $56,299 debt of a woman who borrowed $16,900 25 years ago for an education she never completed. A bankruptcy judge in Buffalo has wiped out the $56,299 ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has found that debts relating to a securities law violation could be discharged in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding if the debtor himself was not ...

Bankruptcy Judge David Jones observed that the plaintiff's effort to obtain class-wide relief over Citibank's treatment of ...

For many borrowers, the last few years have been a stressful cycle of rising costs, higher interest rates and mounting credit card balances that won't shrink no matter how diligent you are about ...