Complaints about credit-damage threats grew more than sixfold in a year

Debt collection complaints under the issue "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", by sub-issue. 2026 is partial, through 2 October.

Stacked columns for 2024, 2025 and 2026 to 2 October. Complaints about threats to damage credit rise from about 6,400 to 41,600 to 51,300; all other sub-issues stay between about 4,000 and 7,000.

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Counts for the two series are derived from the sub-issue shares and rounded to the nearest 10.

Chart: Kibbo ResearchSource: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database; Kibbo Research analysisGet the data