Dealing With Collection Agencies

If you find yourself dealing with a collection agency whose behavior borders on harassment, you are well within your rights to seek out legal help.

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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act or FDCPA outlines how debt collectors may or may not contact a debt defaulter. There are practices that collection agencies are barred from because they constitute harassment. However, some debt collectors still go ahead with intimidating behavior.

Given below is a checklist for the FDCPA:

  • Types of debt covered by FDCPA include those incurred through purchases for family, household, personal and medical reasons. This includes credit card debt as well.
  • Debt collectors can only contact you by mail, telephone or fax. Contacting between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. is not allowed, unless mutually agreed upon. They cannot contact you at your workplace.
  • You can prohibit a debt collector from contacting you by writing to them.
  • The debt collector cannot inform anyone else about your loan except to find out details about where you live or work.
  • Debt collectors, when collecting information about you can identify themselves and their collection services. They may not disclose the purpose of the call though.
  • Debt collectors need to send you a written notice on the debt, including details of the creditor and the action to be taken.
  • If a collection agency violates this norm, you can demand a second written notice.
  • If you send the collection agency proof that you do not owe anybody the money within 30 days of establishing first contact with you, they need to stop contacting you.

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