What is the most common complaint against Allen & Withrow?

The most common issue consumers report about Allen & Withrow is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Debt is not mine". This is based on 29 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Allen & Withrow increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Allen & Withrow are falling. The company received 2 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Allen & Withrow's reputation grade?

Allen & Withrow has a reputation grade of D (score: 54.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Allen & Withrow respond to consumer complaints?

Allen & Withrow has a 86% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 31% of cases.

In how many states does Allen & Withrow operate?

Allen & Withrow has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 6 states, with the most complaints from Arkansas (21 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Allen & Withrow - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 6 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

10
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

5
False statements or representation

3
Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Written notification about debt

2
Disclosure verification of debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record allen-withrow Allen & Withrow

Grade D · 29 CFPB filings · 86% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1552 · compose #3348

VOL 29
GRADE D
12MO 2
STATES 6
TIMELY 86%
DISPUTE 31%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,552
COMPOSE #3,348

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Acquired Assets, Ltd. (29 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Allen & Withrow's 29 CFPB complaints sit next to Acquired Assets, Ltd. on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

72.4% of Allen & Withrow's CFPB filings land in Arkansas

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Allen & Withrow is volume #1,552 but composite #3,348, while Arkansas dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Arkansas 72.4%; 21 of 29 filings · 6 states touched
Spike month: 2025-05 22.2%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,552 volume; #3,348 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,796 places worse than volume

How does Allen & Withrow compare to its peers?

How does Allen & Withrow compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Allen & Withrow National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

86%

79%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

31%

38%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2022-08 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	10
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	5
False statements or representation	3
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Written notification about debt	2
Disclosure verification of debt	2
Taking/threatening an illegal action	2
Communication tactics	1
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against Allen & Withrow come from?

Allen & Withrow's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Arkansas

21
Oklahoma

3
California

1
Louisiana

1
Missouri

1
Texas

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Allen & Withrow: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 29.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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