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Unforgiven: Weak laws offer debtors little protection

by: Paul Kiel, ProPublica & Chris Arnold, NPR
on March 26 2015

tags: Consumer debt, debt collectors, wage garnishments, medical bills, poverty, insecurity

Critics say the 1968 federal law that allows collectors to take 25 percent of debtors' wages, or every penny in their bank accounts, is out of date and overly harsh.

 

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