In April 2025, Freedom Debt Relief reviewed data from tens of thousands of people actively looking for help with their debt. The numbers might be surprising. A collection account is a debt your ...

Pay-for-delete promises to erase collection debt from your credit report, but the results of this strategy can vary.

If you've signed up with a debt relief company, chances are you were already struggling to keep up with regular bills, credit card balances or collection debt. Maybe your interest rates were too high ...

Collection Debt by the Numbers: The National Picture In April 2025, about one in four people looking for debt relief had at least one account in collections. The average collection balance is $3,027, ...