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Credit Reports - Errors Can Be Costly
In today's society, we can't function without credit. We need it to pay bills, borrow money, and to buy our homes and cars. A luxury of the current age is that credit is often granted easily and quickly, a result of years of automation and refining...
Five Simple Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Credit Score
You can improve your credit score by taking a few simple steps such as paying down your debt, reduce credit card charges, not opening new credit, and avoid filing bankruptcy.
1. Pay your bills on time.
Your payment history is the single most...
Getting the Loan You Need with Adverse Credit
For those individuals who have had credit problems in the past,
getting a loan for something that they need can seem like a
nearly impossible dream. After all, what lender is going to give
money to someone that's had problems repaying loans or...
Mortgage And Credit Card Companies Under The Spotlight On Consumer Charging
For the first time since May 1996 reports have indicated that wage increases have risen faster than house price inflation. According to Nationwide, "The overall picture remains one of a gently softening market". The signs indicate that the housing...
Poor Credit And No Respect
One of my favorite comedians of all time was the great Rodney Dangerfield. This bug-eyed king of the one liners made millions of dollars proclaiming how he didn't get any respect. His comedy was priceless. The saying "I don't get no respect" easily...
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First Major Regulatory and Legislative Victory of 2005 for Creditors and Consumers
Under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, collectors are not allowed to disclose a consumers past due debt to anyone other than the debtor and in some cases a spouse. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act would have required collectors to identify the registered name of their business in any pre-recorded messages to consumers or debtors. Since the name of many collection agencies indicates that they are a debt collection agency or that they are calling for the purpose of collecting a debt, this would have caused them to violate the FDCPA. The TCPA creates unworkable contradictions with collectors and creditors who are following the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 was created in response to consumer concerns about the growing number of unsolicited telemarketing calls to their homes and the increasing use of automated and prerecorded messages. The FCC has rules to aid consumers who wish to limit these uninvited calls. On June 26, 2003, the FCC revised its rules implementing the TCPA and established, in coordination with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a national do-not-call registry.
The term "telephone solicitation" does not include calls or messages placed with the receiver's prior expressed permission, by or on behalf of a tax-exempt non-profit organization, or from a person or
organization with which the receiver has an established business relationship, such as a creditor or a collection agency. An established business relationship exists if you have made an inquiry, application, purchase, or transaction regarding products or services offered by the person or entity involved. Consumers, who add their number to the Do Not Call list, will not stop collection calls. This will only stop unsolicited telemarketing calls.
Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be reducing the abuse of the legal system through frivolous lawsuits. Also, the U.S. Senate approved a bill to reform class litigation. ACA International has been instrumental in getting these changes made. ACA International has used its over 5,300 members to help build support for this bill in order to reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits filed against companies and collection agencies including ACA members.
About the Author
Michelle Dunn is the Author of the FREE e-book How to Help You Get Paid, Credit & Collection Forms and Letters. She has also written and published How to Make Money Collecting Money, Starting a Collection Agency that is available from www.michelledunn.com. For more information on Starting a Collection Agency, order her book for immediate delivery or sign up for her consulting services to start your own agency
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