If your credit card balances have ballooned past $50,000, you may have more debt relief options than you think.

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

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For many Americans, debt isn’t just a balance on a screen—it’s a daily weight. In a 2025 survey by financial services company ...

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The total debt Americans owe on their credit cards has just hit $1.33T, a new record high that shows how deep household ...

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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 ...

While headlines focus on inflation, market instability, and job growth, another crisis has been quietly unfolding: student loan debt. As of April 2025, roughly 5.8 million federal student loan ...

When the survey first launched in Q3 2020, about half (50%) of middle-income Americans said their income was falling behind the cost of living. Today, more than two-thirds (69%) hold this view - a ...