On July 30, 2016, Social Security began requiring new and current my Social Security account holders to sign into their account using a one-time code sent via text message. This second layer of security that requires...
Unlike debt settlement and debt consolidation, bankruptcy typically wipes out debt. Although this may seem like a solution to your money problems, it will have lasting consequences on your credit report and still may not remove all the debt you have.
So, if you have a $20,000 credit card debt, for example, and were paying the average interest rate (in 2017) of 15%, your debt would grow to between $29,000 and $32,000 in 3-4 years. So, if you owe $30,000 and a debt settlement company gets half forgiven, you only owe $15,000.