Norton resident named in lawsuit filed by state AG against credit repair companies
The office of state Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed a lawsuit against two individuals who charged illegal upfront fees and allegedly made false promises to fix Massachusetts consumers’ credit reports through their credit repair businesses.
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Debt in Collections: Do you Settle or Pay in Full?
Once your debt goes into collections, you can choose to pay the full amount or negotiate a lower amount. Which choice looks better on your credit report?
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Credit Card Defaults, Late Payments Dip in June
Credit card defaults, late payments mostly decline in June for top issuers; Citi bucks trend Credit card – Business – Citigroup – Financial services – Personal Finance
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Credit card defaults, late payments dip in June
Consumers are getting a handle on their credit card payments, data on defaults and late payments shows.
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Road to Recovery: Increasing your credit score
More Americans across the country are having a tough time getting loans and low interest rates, according to information from FICO Inc. According to FICO Inc, more than 25%, or 43.4 million people, have a credit score of 599 or below
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Fed’s Duke: Boosting Small Business Credit Important To Recovery
Fed’s Duke: Boosting Small Business Credit Important To Recovery
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Fitch to Rate LCDA System Restoration Bonds (LURC Project/ELL), Series 2010; Presale Issued
NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings expects to assign the following ratings to the System Restoration Bonds issued by Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities and Community Development Authority , series 2010:
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Credit Bureau Experts Celebrates 12th Anniversary of Effective Credit Repair
After Twelve years in business, Credit Bureau Experts has a good understanding of what helps fix problem credit reports. Over 70 percent of reports have some inaccuracy.
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What New Regulations Mean for Your Credit Score
You might have noticed your credit card statement looking a little different recently. Here’s what you need to know about your credit score and the credit card regulations.
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Families of church sex abuse victims suffer wounds, too
COVINGTON, Ky. – Sue was deeply into a peaceful sleep one night, when all of a sudden her eyes popped open and a wave of fear instantly washed over her entire body.
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Sex victims’ families suffer wounds, too
Wife of victim in Diocese of Covington sex abuse case speaks out about about impact on family members
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Is Home Ownership an American Right?
Today we begin a series on CNBC called The Housing Fix. To be honest, it grew out of our need to look at the biggest elephant in the home today: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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See Click Fix: Water leak fixed at Cosby Place
What do you do when water’s been leaking along a sidewalk in your neighborhood and it’s been going on for two weeks?   Folks in one east Charlotte neighborhood wrote See, Click, Fix.  Here’s the problem:  free flowing water along the 31-hundred block of Cosby Place.  It appears to be coming from under the sidewalk, near a water mater box.
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Eyal Goldshmid: What to do (and not to do) when a virus strikes
Q. My computer recently has been infected with a virus. For help, I called McAfee, who makes my antivirus program, but they said that their product cannot catch every virus out there, and they are asking .95 (and to ship the system to them) to repair the problem. A program called Total Security seems to be the cause of my trouble, as I am receiving pop-ups from it every few minutes, in which …
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