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...With credit-card debt at record levels, the number of consumer credit-counseling agencies has mushroomed--and so have deceptive practices, say two advocacy groups, the Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumer Law Center...
...DOWN CREDIT CARDS. There aren't many sure-thing investments today that return 10% to 18%, but that is what you'll get, through lower interest payments, by cutting credit-card debt. Consumers are now on the hook for non-mortgage debt of some $14,000, on average, up from $8,500 a decade ago, according to the Care One network of debt counselors. About two-thirds of that is credit-card debt. If you must carry a balance, at least switch to a no-fee, low-fixed-rate choice like Capital One Platinum Visa (8.9% with good credit...
Denner said he has evidence that his client was in Cambridge at the time of the Colorado Springs murder, including e-mails, credit-card bills and first-hand accounts of people who know Pring-Wilson...
...hear nothing but light static, it's often because an automatic dialer has reached you but no agent was free to take the call. An unlisted number used to provide protection, until digital technology allowed marketers to easily gather lists of consumers who have given their numbers to credit-card companies or others with which they do business...
...always aware that the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act requires interest rates to be reduced to 6% for deployed reservists. Monica Dana of Long Island, N.Y., the wife of a reservist deployed in the gulf, has been waiting five months for Capital One to retroactively reduce its credit-card rate from 15.9% - even after a lawyer for the reserves sent a stern letter three months ago warning the company that failure to do so is "a federal crime and a civil wrong." By contrast, some financial institutions - among them, Citibank - are forgiving all interest, minimum payments and fees...