GRIFFIN, Ga. (CBS46) — A report by creditcard.com says more than half of America got itself deep into debt during last year’s pandemic.
Abasi Kitt did his best to work out a payment plan. Kitt is a Marta Bus driver who accrued over 35,000 dollars in debt. He searched for a debt relief company that could help, but what he ended up with nearly cost him 17,000 dollars.
Kitt signed a three year contract with a debt validation company called The Litigation Practice Group. Instead of negotiating a settlement, LPG challenges the debt in an effort to invalidate it.
“Well when I called them they said, you know what? A lot of these companies, they dont word stuff correctly,” Kitt told CBS’s Better Call Harry, “And when they find them, they wr…
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