For many Americans, debt isn’t just a balance on a screen—it’s a daily weight. In a 2025 survey by financial services company ...

Freedom Debt Relief reports a bare-bones budget focuses on essential expenses, helping you cut non-essentials and allocate ...

A couple consults with a finance professional while looking at a set of documents. Debt consolidation is a strategy for managing debt that involves using a new loan, credit card or payment plan to pay ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

One card turns into three. A bill you didn’t expect. A missed payment. Suddenly, you’re checking your bank app daily just to stay above water. At some point, most ...

A debt consolidation loan is a type of personal loan that you can use to combine multiple debts into one and pay them off in fixed installments. This can benefit you in several ways, from simplifying ...

The UK has a huge problem with mental health and debt; I’ve blogged before (see ‘Should we stop people with mental health issues borrowing money?’) on my concerns over this under-addressed subject. It ...

Jenn Allan, a realtor from Delaware, found herself in a ton of debt a few years ago, but with the help of AI — she’s managed to pay off half of it. She began posting her journey to being debt-free on ...