{"id":339044,"date":"2010-02-19T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/debt-problems-top-list-of-consumer-complaints"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:21:16","slug":"debt-problems-top-list-of-consumer-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339044","title":{"rendered":"Debt problems top list of consumer complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO     (AP) &#8212; A nationwide recession helped make debt problems the No. 1 consumer complaint in a list compiled by the Illinois attorney general&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Things were so bad last year there was a 65 percent jump in residential mortgage-related complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Madigan&#8217;s office says it received more than 7,800 complaints about mortgage lending, collections and credit cards.<span id=\"more-20419\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a top 10 list, the No. 2 complaint was about identity theft and coming in third were complaints about construction and home remodeling.<\/p>\n<p>Madigan&#8217;s office says consumers filed a total of 31,264 complaints with their consumer protection division.<\/p>\n<p>The other complaints in the top 10 were about telecommunication services, promotions, car sales, mail orders, attempts to defraud businesses, utility services and car repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Debt problems top list of consumer complaints\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/I\/IL_CONSUMER_COMPLAINTS_ILOL-?SITE=WBBMAM&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\"  rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B7I_0gGNoF_bXzPQM4AdZsp_Yxs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B7I_0gGNoF_bXzPQM4AdZsp_Yxs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B7I_0gGNoF_bXzPQM4AdZsp_Yxs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B7I_0gGNoF_bXzPQM4AdZsp_Yxs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=4HG4ZXDUUM0:V9coWqwkHNo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=4HG4ZXDUUM0:V9coWqwkHNo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=4HG4ZXDUUM0:V9coWqwkHNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=4HG4ZXDUUM0:V9coWqwkHNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/4HG4ZXDUUM0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) &#8212; A nationwide recession helped make debt problems the No. 1 consumer complaint in a list compiled by the Illinois attorney general&#8217;s office. Things were so bad last year there was a 65 percent jump in residential mortgage-related complaints. Lisa Madigan&#8217;s office says it received more than 7,800 complaints about mortgage lending, collections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}