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Credit card statements frequently contain billing errors. As a consumer, it’s up to you to verify your expenses each month and notify your lender of any mistakes. When doing so, it’s important to follow the rules to be taken seriously and achieve speedy resolution.

Here are some common mistakes to watch for:

Items you returned and did not get credit for
Charges for items or services you never received
Charges incurred by an unauthorized party
A charge not clearly identified or lacking information
Simple mathematical errors
Lack of regular account statements.

You have the right to dispute any incorrect or unauthorized charges on your credit card bill. However, you must follow a formal process to lodge your complaint and seek resolution.

To formally report an error, you must first send a letter to your creditor, outlining your issue. Don’t just write an explanation on your statement and mail it back. A formal letter with your name, account number, brief explanation, and dollar amounts involved is required. If you have any supporting documentation, such as receipts, send copies of those as well.

Be sure to send your letter to the address specified for complaints, if there is one. Keep a copy of all materials you send out. You have 60 days from the date of an erroneous bill to dispute the charges.

When making your next payment, you can withhold the portion in dispute, including finance charges. But you must continue to make payments on the portion of your bill not in dispute.  Read more...

For most financial institutions, you qualify for emergency debt relief if you owe more than $10,000 (US). Owing five figures is definitely a cause for alarm, but it’s not hopeless. Many financial services offer emergency debt relief; not just a Jackson, Florida company called Emergency Debt Relief, Inc. which lost a customer fraud lawsuit recently.

It Doesn’t Come Right Away

Emergency debt relief does not mean that you fill out a form or make one phone call and ZAP your bills are paid off. It’s not that simple, but the end goal of getting your debts paid off is still the same. First of all, you need to get all your bills together in order for an emergency debt relief service to help you. You need to find out:

exactly how much you owe to who

exactly how much you make or how much you are worth in annual salary, stocks and property

exactly what your annual bills are (including you monthly bills)

This takes time to gather, but in doing so you will get set on the road to emergency debt relief. You will also know exactly how much money is available to you.

A Good Service

As you’ve probably determined, not all financial services offering emergency debt relief are legal or helpful. There are some things common to fraudsters that you need to be on the lookout for. Fraudsters will offer you a consolidation loan without taking a good look at your current finances. Fraudsters will ask you to falsify information. Fraudsters will also offer no money management courses to you. If you know they are non-profit debt management services, they should not ask you for donations.  Read more...

Tax season comes and goes annually. Many of you may happen to find yourself in tax trouble during this time.

Are you considering assistance for tax debt relief? If so, you should always beware of what you seek. Seek help from registered tax professionals like certified tax attorneys, or else you may find yourself in a debt relief scam. I suggest you visit Instant Tax Solutions website on how to avoid tax scams and review our tips. Tax defrauds are on the advance and you might just be caught up in one. Following are tips about the offer in compromise platform and required questions to ask your self when seeking legitimate, clerical tax help.

One thing you should be concerned about in doing an offer in compromise is how to know you are not being scammed by the tax attorney or firm that you hired. There are a lot of fraudulent companies out there.

This is very true about tax scams. Naturally, scams are everywhere. It happens to all types of industries. Each Year about this same time, the number of scams begin to rise. This is right after people have filed their returns and begin to realize they’re in significant debt. There are two parts in addressing this issue:

Foremost, you should determine whether the offer in compromise is something for you to do on your own or something you should be addressing with the assistance and consultation of a qualified tax professional or tax attorney.  Read more...

For many reasons people may find themselves unable to pay off their debts and many loans such as those for cars and houses are secured by the lender holding the deed or title to the property. Most credit cards, medical bills and many other debts are not considered secured by any tangible property and finding unsecured debt relief may be is easy as filing for bankruptcy. This course of action may not, however be for everyone and they will have to explore other methods to find unsecured debt relief.

Obviously, the best way to find unsecured debt relief is to pay the bills on time, but that is not always going to be possible, especially when someone loses their job or suffers an illness that prevents them from working and paying their additional medical expenses. Many creditors are willing to work with people to lower payments or enable them to make interest-only payments until they get back on their feet and can resume meeting their obligations.

There are some legitimate debt consolidation companies that help with unsecured debt relief by contacting the debt holders and arranging payments on your behalf, often lowering the total monthly payment to be less than the aggregate total of all of the individual debt. Caution is required when choosing a company as some of them have been found to be less than honest in their dealings.

Trusteeship May Help Consolidate Debt Legally  Read more...

Debt relief is something many Americans are in search of, but it can be a little complicated if you don’t have all the facts. There are many myths, stories to be told and false information that is passed around when it comes to debt relief.

It is time to separate the fact from the fiction and get you on your way to finding some relief, because it is out there and it is possible.

Now, it is not necessarily correct that you have to repay the entire amount you owe. It is possible to get your debt reduced by your creditors. If you are unable to pay them off and turn to bankruptcy, then they stand to get nothing. So usually they will be willing to settle for a percentage of what you owe.

It is untrue that you can never get away from bad credit. It might seem that way, but it is possible to improve your debt. Through personal loans and paying regular interest, this will show that your debt is not hopeless.

It is not always true that you cannot get a personal loan if you do not have any collateral. What you don’t get, minus any collateral is called a secured personal loan. If you were to get an unsecured loan, then the money you are borrowing is based upon your word that you will pay it back.  Read more...