Do you have a bill that has been turned over to a collection agency? Of course, you'll want to make things right as well as remove the negative effect on your credit score. But what if you can't ...

The debt collection industry was estimated to be in excess of $13.4B in 2021 with over 7,000 collection agencies. With such fragmentation in the industry, practices by collectors vary widely and the ...

WalletHub collected data from the end of 2025 and ranked the states with the most and least debt collection accounts.