What To Do If You Have A Bill Collector On The Phone
If you owe debt to a creditor collection agencies are allowed to report your debt to credit bureaus, file lawsuits against you, and should be taken very seriously. The best way to protect yourself and your financial situation is a methodical approach. First, know why you are being contacted. Know where the debt is from and exactly how much it costs.
Find out the name of the person calling, the agency, the creditor, and the agency's address and fax number. Under the FDCPA, you have the right to tell a collector over the phone that you want all future contact to be in writing. Follow up all requests with a written request.
Keep in mind if you tell the debt collector that they are not permitted to contact you at all it the agency is entitled to contact you once more to inform you how it plans to proceed. Another request that can be made is that you are the only person that can be contacted. It might be a good idea to keep a file including dates and details of phone conversations and when you mail out or receive letters.
If you do send any correspondence to the collections agency do this by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested. This ensures that the letter reached the collector, giving you a signed receipt as proof. If you negotiate a re-payment plan over the phone, ask for the terms of the plan in writing. Any promise to remove or adjust credit history should also definitely be documented.
Ensure that you pay the right party; payments should be made to the collections agency, not the creditor, unless otherwise instructed to do so. Look over the amount you are being asked to pay carefully. Obtain an assessment of any interest, fees or charges that have been added.
If you think that your collector is harassing you, be sure to complain to the agency and keep this complaint in your file. Finally, never ignore a collector even if you feel that the debt isn't yours; they will continue to contact you and it may mean more trouble and time in the long run.
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I meant to say "Edinburgh" instead of "Glasgow". Could have also said "Hartlepool", "Middlesbrough" or any of the cities along the UK North Sea that support oil and gas operations. Steve is likely to tell me that you can't compare Norway and Iraq. Iraq is a lot bigger. Well not really. Iraq has only 25 million inhabitants compared to Norway's 5 million. However, Iraq has an estimated 115 billion barrels of reserves – Norway just 7.7. On a per capita basis, Iraq has 23,000 barrels of oil reserves per capita compared to Norway with just 1,540. If private oil development in Norway led to prosperity – imagine what it could do for Iraq. The Iraqi oil law doesn't sound too different from the Norwegian development model. INOC would control a large share of the existing reserves, with private development under PSAs for developing newer fields. Clearly at around 2 million barrels per day of exports Iraq is not anywhere near its full potential. In further support of my argument that Iraq needs IOC help, here is an excerpt from the DOE country brief on Iraq: "Throughout most of the 1990s, Iraq did not generally have access to the latest, state-of-the-art oil industry technology (3D seismic, directional or deep drilling, gas injection, etc.), sufficient spare parts, and investment. Instead, Iraq reportedly utilized sub-standard engineering techniques (i.e., overpumping), obsolete technology, and systems in various states of decay in order to sustain production. In the long run, reversal of all these practices and utilization of the most modern techniques, combined with development of both discovered fields as well as new ones, could result in Iraq's oil output increasing by several million barrels per day." "U.N. oil experts have estimated that some reservoirs in southern Iraq have been so badly managed that their ultimate recovery rates might be only 15 percent-25 percent, well below the 35 percent-60 percent usually seen in the oil industry." Similarly, PDVSA is bungling its oil and gas operations and reducing the ultimate recovery to just a fraction of what an IOC could do.
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I have a question. I live a great life. I am a 20-something that stays home during the day with my two children while my husband works 50 hour weeks to support us. we have nice things, pay our bills, and love life. Part of our bills include my student loan payments. I have been faithfully paying them, while gritting my teeth everythime i write the check, for two years now. My pain comes from the fact that i have no degree. I started school the fall after graduating high school. I tested out of most gen. ed. classes, earned the chancellor's scholarship for amazing act scores, and infact my entire freshman year was paid for with grants and scholarships because i did my research and applied for everything under the sun! yah me! sadly i didnt do the same for my soph year or junior year. at the end of my junior year i became pregnant with my first child and decided to devote the first year of his life soley to him, not my studies, which at the time were to become a secondary ed teacher with a math minor. unfortunately, by the next fall when i attempted to pick up where i left off the degree requirements had changed and a high school teacher now had to have a degree in math, not secondary ed. what happened to the 140 credits i had worked so hard for?? they became elective credits, about 30 going towards my "new" degree, essentially i was starting fresh. try as i may i argued with everyone possible about grandfathering me in, why should i be punished for taking a year off to have a child?? someone told me if i had only taken a semester off then the story might have been different! who was to say the degree requirements were even going to change, no one could have possibly told me this when i first became pregnant!! i took my losses and went back to my studies now working towards my math degree!!! sadly it was quite an undertaking and i decided to instead focus on an accounting degree. i look back and feel maybe i made the wrong decision but i couldnt see myself finishing that intense of a degree when my heart wasnt set on it completely. then my family moved 2 hours away for a better job for my husband and i had to change colleges. during my first year at this second school, after applying for aide for the following year, i recieved a letter from student assistance foundation saying the department of education decided i was not eligible for any more money because i "have enough credits to qualify for a degree" (not for anything specific but number-wise i had met the average amount required) so in-turn i was considered at "life-time" student, meaning i just kept going to school changing my mind all over the place, acting like a real life van wilder. this, they proclaimed, was reason to cut me off of financial aide, until, of course, i obtained a bachelor's degree and then began working on my master's. I was outraged!! it was not me that "changed my mind!!!" it was the school for telling me i could not complete my final year for my degree in education!!! i have $27,000 in student loans that i am trying to pay back. I am on a 15 year re-payment plan chipping away at my loans. i fought, i argued, i cursed, at everyone who smashed my dreams, to no avail. i have accepted it was my fault for taking off a year to have my son, so i am paying back every penny, i believe it is wrong deep down in my heart. my question is: "Am i a dead-beat, a loser, do i expect someone to hand me things on a silver platter, just because i am searching for a way to erase my school debt??" i dont think so. I am a hard working mother of two, i have a wonderful hubby who breaks his back for almost nothing in return but, hey, atleast he has a job, praise the Lord! i dont mind that im not teaching, what i do mind is that I am paying a large sum of money for essentially nothing, except for the knowledge that life is hard and you make it what it is, i was raised on those ideals! im not asking anyone to pay my student loans, why are we throwing money (that we dont have) at a problem that should be reversed by teaching people how to make things better for themselves? ill admit i would like some sympathy for my sob story. i honestly do not feel i should be responsible for the loans. if i were allowed to finish my degree then i wouldnt even be on this website spilling my guts! i would pay them and thank the Lord for everyday i am not starving in an alley somewhere. Is there not someway for me to just complain enough that my loans are just magically erased?!?! someone tell me!!
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Better to pay fees than to have some Fascist outfit in South Dakota (IRS) have your SSN. This is a trick. You will be sorry once they start streaming all your data to the IRS.
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