Take a Financial Relief Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. With rising interest rates and economic uncertainty, many households are struggling to pay their bills. According to the U.S.

As president of Cambridge Credit Counseling Corp., a nonprofit credit-counseling organization that was mentioned in Debra Blum’s article, “Checking Up on Credit Charities” (August 21), I want to ...

Americans now owe nearly $5 trillion in non-housing debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a sum that’s increased more than 60% over the past decade. As our debt has grown, so has ...

Take a Financial Relief Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Although managing your daily budget and improving your credit score are things you can do on your own, sometimes we all need a ...

Credit card debt this year is at an all-time high, and more and more cash-strapped consumers add to those numbers every month. If you are getting deeper and deeper in debt on your credit cards, you ...

After an initial evaluation, a counselor will advise you on the best course of action to tackle your debt, whether you need general personal finance advice, bankruptcy counseling or something else.

With the current economic tumult, many people are struggling to keep their pocketbooks in order. Financial stress can have a significant impact on your mental and physical health, relationships and ...

Many Americans—about half—carry credit card debt from month to month, and about 53 percent of them have been in debt for more than a year, according to a survey by Bankrate.com. Households with credit ...

Credit card interest rates remain high, but many cardholders are lowering their costs by simply asking and knowing what else ...

Credit counseling took another blow in July when a group charged that creditors control the industry through the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, resulting in poorly served consumers and an ...

The Internal Revenue Service has denied tax-exempt status to several credit counseling agencies, partly because they relied too heavily on banks and credit card companies for their funding. Credit ...