What is the most common complaint against Debt Relief Center?

The most common issue consumers report about Debt Relief Center is "Written notification about debt", specifically "Didn't receive enough information to verify debt". This is based on 15 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Debt Relief Center increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Debt Relief Center are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Debt Relief Center's reputation grade?

Debt Relief Center has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.8/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Debt Relief Center respond to consumer complaints?

Debt Relief Center has a 93% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Debt Relief Center operate?

Debt Relief Center has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 10 states, with the most complaints from New Jersey (3 complaints).

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

Debt Relief Center - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 10 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Written notification about debt

7
Attempts to collect debt not owed

4
False statements or representation

4

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record debt-relief-center Debt Relief Center

Grade C · 15 CFPB filings · 93% timely · lead issue: Written notification about debt · vol #2129 · compose #2965

VOL 15
GRADE C
12MO 0
STATES 10
TIMELY 93%
ISSUE Written notification about…
RANK #2,129
COMPOSE #2,965

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Accounts Advocate Agency (15 complaints)

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

Debt Relief Center's 15 CFPB complaints sit next to Accounts Advocate Agency 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 →

Spiky monthly series

New Jersey is the plurality state for Debt Relief Center (20.0%)

The 2025-10 spike coincides with a 836-place gap between volume rank #2,129 and composite #2,965. Corpus placement method.

Plurality state: New Jersey 20.0%; Mid-band (15–30%) · 10 states with ≥1 filing
Spike month: 2025-10 66.7%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,129 volume; #2,965 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 836 places worse than volume

How does Debt Relief Center compare to its peers?

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

Debt Relief Center National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

93%

87%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

53%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2025-10 2026-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Written notification about debt	7
Attempts to collect debt not owed	4
False statements or representation	4

Where do complaints against Debt Relief Center come from?

Debt Relief Center's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

New Jersey

3
New York

3
Illinois

2
Arkansas

1
California

1
District of Columbia

1
Hawaii

1
Louisiana

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Debt Relief Center: 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: 15.

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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