The Commonwealth Bank gave a problem gambler more than $13,000 in personal loans despite his transaction history with the bank showing he was spending as much as half his income on a months-long betting binge. Ben*, who asked the ABC not to use his real name, has taken the matter to the Australian Financial Complaints…
You can ask your credit card issuer to pause your payments temporarily, but you’ll only qualify in certain situations. Getty Images Americans are carrying more credit card debt than ever, and that’s a problem for numerous reasons. The total credit card balance nationwide recently surpassed $1.2 trillion, with the average cardholder owing nearly $8,000 on…
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A 25-year-old man who assisted in arranging a fake marriage in order to recoup a gambling debt owed to him, has been sentenced to six months in jail. Lin Jun Hao (transliterated), who was arrested at Woodlands Checkpoint, faced two charges under the Immigration Act. According to a report by Shin Min Daily News, the…
After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions of borrowers like Shauntee Russell, the resumption of payments marked a harsh return to financial reality. Russell, a single mother of three from Chicago, had received $127,000…
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When I started at the Department of Education in the 1990s, student loans were a popular middle-class benefit. College affordability or student loan debt were rarely front-page news. Our dingy offices, a converted World War II warehouse, were a daily reminder of how our work seemed overlooked, too. But in those hallways—literally, my desk was…