"Debt Management" Blogs & Blog Posts

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by another quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest level in 15 years as part of an ongoing effort to ease inflation by making borrowing more expensive.If you have money to save, yo...

The countdown until the student loan payment pause is lifted in June is ticking, and some experts worry that once payments resume, many Americans may dig themselves deeper into credit card debt.Already, credit card balances increased by $38 billion i...

So you’re expecting a tax refund this year. With inflation driving up the price of gas, food and nearly everything else, that extra money can’t come soon enough. The hard part is deciding how to spend it. Should you invest the money? Book a trip?

By Chris Taylor   NEW YORK (Reuters) - Early in the pandemic, there were encouraging and surprising signs about the decline of credit card debt.   Now, that trendline seems to be changing.   Many Ameri...

While some progressive Democrats continue to push the president to cancel student loan debt, there's a bipartisan effort underway to overhaul the student loan system in another way: by making bankruptcy discharges more accessible for student debt...

With over $195,000 in student loan debt, Annika Hudak saw little harm in swiping her credit cards. “I was in the mindset that I’m going to be in debt forever, so what’s a couple of thousand dollars here,” says Hudak, 25, a product analys...

A payment protection plan is a form of insurance for your credit card, and it sounds tantalizing: in the event of hardship you can use it to pause minimum monthly payments for months on end, avoiding extra fees and leaving your credit score untouched...