Debt collectors must send a debt validation letter within five days of first contact. Learn what you need to know about debt validation letters.

Debt collectors must provide a debt validation letter to confirm details of the debt, including the amount. Don't act until you have your validation letter.

By sending your debt validation letter within 30 days, you’re asking for this additional documentation, and the agency must stop collection activity while it works to validate your debt.

If you've been called by a debt collector and aren't sure what to do, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has provided five sample letters.

Just because you receive a letter or contact from a debt collector doesn't mean you owe the debt. Learn how debt verification and debt validation letters work.

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September 18, 2019 Director Kathy Kraninger Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Comment Intake-CFPB 1700 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20552 Re: Docket No. CFPB-2019-0022, Debt Collection Practices ...

The agency’s final rule modernizing the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act limits calls to seven per week, but collectors won stronger protections from liability claims and other key changes to the ...

In addition to the validation notice required by Section 1692g, the defendant's initial collection letter to the plaintiff included a box that she could check to indicate, "I am disputing the ...

The Notification Letter also provides an overview of the CFPB’s final rule, effective May 3, 2021, addressing debt collector conduct associated with the CDC Moratorium.

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