What is the most common complaint against Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. is "Communication tactics", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 20 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.'s reputation grade?

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. has a reputation grade of B (score: 66.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. has a 90% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. operate?

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 3 states, with the most complaints from Iowa (12 complaints).

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

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 3 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Communication tactics

5
Attempts to collect debt not owed

4
False statements or representation

4
Written notification about debt

2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
Disclosure verification of debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record financial-adjustment-bureau-inc Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.

Grade B · 20 CFPB filings · 90% timely · lead issue: Communication tactics · vol #1899 · compose #1655

VOL 20
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 3
TIMELY 90%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Communication tactics
RANK #1,899
COMPOSE #1,655

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Account Control Systems, Inc (20 complaints)

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

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.'s 20 CFPB complaints sit next to Account Control Systems, 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

60.0% of Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in Iowa

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Iowa 60.0%; 12 of 20 filings · 3 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2014-03 14.3%; 8–15% band · 1 filings
Corpus ranks: #1,899 volume; #1,655 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Financial Adjustment Bureau, 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

Financial Adjustment B… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

90%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2014-03 2018-10

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Communication tactics	5
Attempts to collect debt not owed	4
False statements or representation	4
Written notification about debt	2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
Disclosure verification of debt	2
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc. come from?

Financial Adjustment Bureau, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Iowa

12
Illinois

4
Texas

3

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Financial Adjustment Bureau, 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: 20.

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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