Household ability to repay (Bankruptcy News) debt still fragile

Household ability to repay debt still fragile
Korea Herald - credit recovery programs for individuals, the number of personal bankruptcy filings for the first seven months topped 17

Sept Bankruptcy
CardTrak - Personal bankruptcy petitions in September set an all-time high, topping 200,000. It is expected that filings for the first two weeks of October may exceed 300,000. Filings for the week ending October 15th were 205,129.

Filing for bankruptcy tougher on Monday
AP via Florida Times-Union - Filing for bankruptcy protection will become more taxing -- mentally and financially -- when a new law takes effect Monday. reform involves new limitations on filing for personal bankruptcy, including barring those with above-average income

Record Numbers Claim Bankruptcy
CBS News - Bankruptcy Code in decades, sets new limits on personal bankruptcy filing and requires people to get professional credit

Storm-related bankruptcy filings expected to surge
AP via Florida Times-Union - BILOXI, Miss. -- First came out-of-pocket medical expenses, the bills piling up faster than Jerry Gollott and his wife could pay them. experts say there will likely be a surge in personal bankruptcy filings along the Gulf Coast months from now, as