What is the most common complaint against Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 23 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. are falling. The company received 4 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.'s reputation grade?

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. has a reputation grade of D (score: 49.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. has a 68% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 33% of cases.

In how many states does Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. operate?

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from Maryland (13 complaints).

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

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

7
Written notification about debt

4
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

4
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

3
False statements or representation

2
Communication tactics

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record child-support-recovery-services-inc Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.

Grade D · 23 CFPB filings · 68% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #1768 · compose #4189

VOL 23
GRADE D
12MO 4
STATES 9
TIMELY 68%
DISPUTE 33%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #1,768
COMPOSE #4,189

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Acceptance Solutions Group, INC (23 complaints)

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

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.'s 23 CFPB complaints sit next to Acceptance Solutions Group, INC 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

56.5% of Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in Maryland

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. is volume #1,768 but composite #4,189, while Maryland dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Maryland 56.5%; 13 of 23 filings · 9 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2018-05 10.0%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,768 volume; #4,189 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,421 places worse than volume

How does Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Child Support Recovery… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

68%

83%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

33%

23%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2014-11 2025-07

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	7
Written notification about debt	4
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	4
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	3
False statements or representation	2
Communication tactics	2
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	1

Where do complaints against Child Support Recovery Services, Inc. come from?

Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Maryland

13
District of Columbia

2
Georgia

2
Delaware

1
Florida

1
New York

1
Ohio

1
Virginia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Child Support Recovery Services, Inc.: 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: 23.

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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