The first step, consumer finance experts say, is to ask your card issuer to reduce the rate. And with average balances now $6,500, consider using your tax refund to put a dent in the debt.

President Donald Trump has brought mixed economic results to Michiganders in the first year of his second term.

Farmington Hiills-based GreenPath Financial Wellness sees many consumers who turned to credit cards to make ends meet once ...

Credit card debt can be embarrassing. Interest rates are often sky-high. A maxed-out card might feel like a symbol of poor choices or lax financial discipline. And card debt is especially embarrassing ...

Low-income households aren’t the only ones struggling to pay off credit card debt. Middle-class Americans are increasingly under pressure, even though inflation has cooled from its pandemic highs.

Americans now owe nearly $5 trillion in non-housing debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a sum that’s increased more than 60% over the past decade. As our debt has grown, so has ...

BBB serving Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia is now accepting nominations for the Torch Award for Ethics. Established in 1994, this award honors for-profit and nonprofit organizations that ...

Verizon said Thursday that it would begin issuing $20 credits to the accounts of customers affected by Wednesday’s nearly daylong cellular service problems. The outage, which brought voice and data ...

Using a personal loan to pay off credit card debt could be a smart move if you can secure a lower rate or are juggling multiple credit card payments Paying off credit card debt with a personal loan ...

A woman who had a £10,000 credit card debt has told BBC Panorama how a credit-rating service, which she thought would help her bring her finances under control, encouraged her to take out yet more ...

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the Federal Reserve made a mistake by not cutting interest ...

A widespread Verizon cell phone service outage affected customers across the United States. At its peak, nearly 177,000 outages were reported to the monitoring site DownDetector. Many users' phones ...