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Individual phone collectors will be given a portfolio of accounts, and the bulk of their workday, every day, will be spent working them. Collection agents are subject to many performance evaluations and most of their paycheck is earned from personal commission payments. Thus, the size of a debt collector’s paycheck depends on how successful he or she is at collecting from debtors. This factor, coupled with relentless confrontations with angry and sensitive debtors, makes for an extremely high stress job with high employee turnover.

In the last article in this series I wrote about how long different marks remain on your credit report. I mentioned that mistakes will be removed immediately, soft inquiries will have no effect, and hard inquiries can hang around on your credit report for two years. Late payments have the capacity to do way more damage.

Litigation against local forestry contractors in Arrow Lakes that was filed by an American collection company has for the time being been put on hold by a Delaware judge. On January 20 a hearing was held in a U.S. court with PricewaterhouseCooper legal counsel attending via telephone conference.