While paying down the cost of their college education has dropped out of the top three, the Northwestern Mutual Planning & ...

A new AARP survey suggests nearly half (47%) of adults 50 and older who carry credit card debt use their cards to pay for ...

An alarming share of older adults use credit cards to cover basic living expenses, AARP reports in a new survey.

The old adage "Retire without debt" may be going the way of the electric typewriter. Nearly every retirement-age American has debt.

Nearly half of older Americans with credit card debt are relying on credit cards to cover their basic living expenses, with more than a third seeing balances rise, AARP found.

My 72-year-old mom was pressured into paying $200/month for decades-old debt — collectors threatened her credit, even court time. After 1 year of payments, can she just stop? In the wake of her ...

Fifty-eight percent of people admit they are concerned that a major health event might lead to personal medical debt, ...

Many Americans find themselves in this difficult position, though. Each year, millions of people have their old debt sent to collection agencies, whether it's due to an old medical bill they can't ...

About 31 million Americans borrowed money to pay for health care last year, accumulating $74 billion in medical debt, West ...