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Nursing Home Debt Collection

The Office for Older Americans conducted an analysis of the risks that nursing home residents and their caregivers face by assessing consumer complaints, nursing home admission contracts, and debt collection lawsuits for problematic practices that result in consumer financial harm. The CFPB also learned about nursing home debt collection practices from nursing home experts, legal aid and elder law attorneys, and long-term care ombudspersons from across the nation.

This Issue Spotlight focuses on the risk of financial harm that nursing homes and their debt collectors cause by attempting to collect invalid debts from residents’ family and friends.

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CFPB and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Take Action to Protect Caregivers and Families from Illegal Nursing Home Debt Collection Practices