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Fraud hurts everyone by limiting the supply from good, qualified renters to inherently making renting more expensive as companies work to recoup costs on their bad debt.
—Tyler Christiansen, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Focus on paying off bad debt as quickly as possible and avoid accumulating more.
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—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
Those provisions are the money that financial institutions set aside to cover any potential losses from credit risk, including delinquent or bad debt and lending.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 25 July 2024
My dad lived very hand-to-mouth, and my mum used to buy a lot through catalogues and got herself into some bad debt.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 8 May 2024
Between 2016 and 2022, about $100 million of bad debt was attributable to individuals who would have qualified for charity care.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
The organization analyzes bad debt to find an amount of debt that matches the money the organization has to pay.
—Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024
Rall, the spokesperson with CHA, attributes the increase in bad debt to the proliferation of high-deductible plans that leave patients underinsured.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
The utility in its rate filing is seeking to recover $156 million in bad debt and other program costs that have accumulated since the start of the program.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Bad debt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20debt. Accessed 29 Sep. 2024.
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bad debt
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