Most business owners who invoice customers for goods or services will encounter the occasional late payment. However, if a customer’s invoice due date has come and gone and you can’t get a firm answer ...

Senators have asked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to justify the high costs of the federal government’s collection of defaulted student loans. With Congress calling for greater investigation into ...

If you ask the average person, "What does a debt collection agency do?" they would most likely respond, "They, uh...collect debts." But ask them to elaborate a little and you might get something that ...

Private debt collection companies will start working to collect overdue tax liabilities in spring 2017, the IRS announced on Monday. The IRS also announced that it has awarded contracts to four ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas ...

Ken Mueller of Illinois has been a mostly happy customer of Comcast for about eight years, relying on the cable company’s business Internet service to run an IT consulting business from his home. But ...

Certain business models seem to have unshakable stigmas associated with them. Sometimes it’s deserved, such as from decades of unethical or sneaky behavior by players in the industry, and in other ...

Uncle Sam needs some help collecting unpaid taxes, so the Internal Revenue Service will now use private companies to tackle this growing backlog of debt. The IRS announced earlier this month that it’s ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, 12 U.S. senators sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), A. Wayne Johnson, ...