Jill A. Chafin is a personal finance writer specializing in transforming tough financial topics into easy-to-understand content with actionable steps. Prior to her role at Forbes Advisor, she wrote ...

Accredited Debt Relief is a well-known debt settlement company that claims it can help shrink your debt and make it more manageable. Sounds great, right? Sure — but if we dig into the details, is it ...

Debt relief and credit counseling both help consumers climb out of debt. But they have different requirements, costs and drawbacks.

Recently, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against seven companies and three individuals operating the "Accelerated Debt" program that falsely claimed to reduce consumers' debt by as ...

We reviewed nearly 20 debt relief companies, looking at costs, transparency, breadth of services provided, customer support ...

Many tax relief companies are legitimate, but the IRS warns consumers to approach them with caution — and for good reason. Too often, sketchy tax relief companies prey on people’s vulnerability by ...