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 ...

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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 ...

A program Congress authorized in 2015 for the Internal Revenue Service to outsource the collection of some outstanding tax debt has brought in only about half as much money as projected, according to ...