BREATHING ROOM. I STARTED TO FEEL THE CRUNCH WHEN I STARTED TO USE CREDIT CARDS FOR JUST DAILY ESSENTIALS. FOR JENNIFER PAEZ, MORE EXPENSES AND LESS MONEY. COMING IN MEANT ONE SIMPLE THING SHE HAD TO ...

Some borrowers are turning to personal loans to refinance credit card debt. Those loans are expected increase nearly 6% this year, TransUnion forecasts ...

A new report from WalletHub found that Georgia residents were increasing their consumer debt, the fifth most in the country.

With average credit card interest rates topping 22%, many consumers have found themselves deeper and deeper in debt.

Susan Cannon, 73, owes nearly $40,000 across 19 credit cards. High interest rates are preventing her from retiring.

Love, as anyone who had to pay for a last-minute Valentine’s gift last weekend knows, can get pretty expensive. So observers may be worried to see the UK’s banks and borrowers rekindling their romance ...

A proposal pitched as a way to help consumers struggling with interest rates is unsettling the financial sector. As President ...

After unexpectedly surging in July, consumer debt returned to its previous trend and flatlined again in August, signaling growing financial stress on American households. It contracted in May and June ...

While carrying a balance on your credit card should never be your first choice, it's growing increasingly unavoidable for many Americans. The most recent New York Fed report on household debt and ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Credit One Bank will pay $10.2 million to resolve a civil lawsuit filed by the District Attorneys’ Offices of ...