Submitted by New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyer, Lee M. Perlman. Clifford Cain Jr., a retired electrician in Baltimore, was used to living on a tight budget, carefully apportioning his Social Security and pension benefits to cover his rent and medication for multiple sclerosis. So Mr. Cain was puzzled when he suddenly could not make ends meet. […]
Ask These Questions to Expose a Fake Debt Collector
Submitted by New Jersey Bankruptcy Attorney, Lee Perlman. Originally published here by lifehacker.com It’s no secret that debt collectors will resort to some shady tactics to get money out of you, but what’s worse is when someone posing as a debt collector tries to get you to cough up cash you may not owe. The […]
A Debt Collector’s Day
Originally published in the New York Times here. Credit Golden Cosmos NOBODY likes debt collectors. But a great many of us have to deal with them. A recent study by the Urban Institute found that roughly one-third of all Americans have a debt in collections reported on their credit file. For many debtors, that […]
