If you’re feeling the pinch in your budget from debt payments, you join millions of other Americans facing increasing consumer debt. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York‘s Household Debt and Credit ...

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We all know the feeling. Our financial commitments exceed our income. We use credit cards, pay advances, home equity loans and family to cover the expenses. And then we owe money to those creditors.

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 ...

The Consumer Credit Counseling Service will celebrate the opening of a new office in Niagara Falls today. The Niagara County Financial Literacy Coalition is an economic empowerment initiative of ...

Kathleen Morrow, a recently divorced freelance writer in Houston, was sinking in a sea of credit card debt -- $18,000 -- and was scared to death. "I realized I had gotten myself in a situation where ...

Following a divorce, a series of moves to pick up acting work, and a string of temporary jobs that dried up when the economy soured in 2001, Alyssa Polacsek owed $20,000 to two credit-card companies.

It?s a credit counseling Battle of the Bulge. With an estimated 14.44 percent of U.S. subprime mortgages in default and 1.8 million of them about to reset at 30 to 50 percent higher monthly payments, ...

Consumer Credit Counseling Services of New Hampshire & Vermont was awarded a $1,000 grant from St. Mary's Bank to help offset the cost of printing brochures. "We are very thankful for St. Mary's Bank ...