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• Credit "Repair" Company Agrees to Settle FTC Charges - Consumer Affairs

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A company that lured consumers with false claims for credit repair services and required advance payment ranging from $500 to as much as $2500 has agreed to ...

Resolution for 2009: Shape up your credit report - The Associated Press

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In fact, FTC spokesman Steve Baker said he's never seen a legitimate credit repair operation. "I won't say it can't exist. But I've never seen one," he said ...

What to Expect for Your Credit in '09 - CNBC

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Credit repair organizations felt the sting of the Federal Trade Commission in 2008. 2009 it's the debt settlement industry's turn to learn what it means to ...

Low Mortgage Rates, Payday Loans Help Repair Credit - Personal Money Store Blog

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It can help repair credit. Since mortgage rates have received welcome decreases from the Federal Reserve - making them low enough that more can afford to ...

Resolution for 2009: Shape up your credit report (AP via Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 11:24 AM CST

Getting your credit report in shape in 2009 is a sound New Year's resolution. Just make sure you're not reeled into any scams.

Resolution for 2009: Shape up your credit report (San Francisco Chronicle)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 12:05 PM CST

Getting your credit report in shape in 2009 is a sound New Year's resolution. Just make sure you're not reeled into any scams. With a deepening recession leaving more people in financial distress, fraudulent services promising to scrub credit reports of...

Financial resolution for the New Year: Get your credit report in shape (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 11:31 AM CST

NEW YORK - Getting your credit report in shape in 2009 is a sound New Year's resolution. Just make sure you're not reeled into any scams. With a deepening recession leaving more people in financial distress, fraudulent services promising to scrub credit reports of negative information are rampant.

Resolution for 2009: Shape up your credit report (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 11:24 AM CST

Getting your credit report in shape in 2009 is a sound New Year's resolution.

Crews Repair Waipahu Water Main Break (KITV Honolulu)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 03:09 PM CST

The Board of Water Supply crews repair an 8-inch water main that broke in Waipahu.

Patrick asks for ice storm disaster declaration (New England Cable News)

Posted: 24 Dec 2008 03:29 PM CST

(NECN: Stephen Iandoli, Townsend, Mass.) - The weather and the economy are a double whammy for many New England towns. Budgets hit hard by cutbacks, the credit crunch and job losses now also have to shell out for storm repair. The power is finally back on in towns hit hard by ice storms two weeks ago. Gov. Deval Patrick has asked President Bush to declare a disaster in communities hit hard ...