Surviving Debt
Summary
Surviving Debt is available to all for free during the COVID-19 emergency. To read the digital edition for free, click here. Use the Table of Contents on the left side menu to navigate through the chapters.
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A leading resource for over 25 years, this fully updated, 50th NCLC Anniversary commemorative edition of Surviving Debt provides precise, practical, and hard-hitting advice from the nation’s consumer law experts on how to deal with crushing debt affecting millions of Americans.
Surviving Debt tells you what consumers need to know about:
- Stopping Debt Harassment
- Dealing with Credit Card, Medical, and Student Loan Debts
- Which Debts to Pay First
- Essential Information about Credit Reports
- Collection Lawsuits
- Vehicle Repossessions
- Saving Your Home from Foreclosure
- When and When Not to Refinance
- How to Defend Collection Lawsuits
- Debts Related to Criminal Law
- When and Whether to File for Bankruptcy, and much more.
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Reviews
"A wealth of expert legal advice on dealing with an overwhelming debt burden."
— Senator Elizabeth Warren, Founder, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
"Outstanding manual. Seldom is such useful, authoritative information available for so small a price!"
— Booklist
"A gold mine on topics like how to handle collectors, which debts to pay first, and how collection lawsuits work."
— U.S. News and World Report
"Great advice, from the nation’s experts, on how to pull yourself out of debt."
— Jane Bryant Quinn
"The best book available for consumers in financial trouble."
— Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America