What is the most common complaint against Financial Recovery Group?

The most common issue consumers report about Financial Recovery Group is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened to sue you for very old debt". This is based on 2 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Financial Recovery Group increasing or decreasing?

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

What is Financial Recovery Group's reputation grade?

Financial Recovery Group has a reputation grade of F (score: 38.8/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Financial Recovery Group respond to consumer complaints?

Financial Recovery Group has a 0% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Financial Recovery Group operate?

Financial Recovery Group has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Florida (1 complaints).

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

Financial Recovery Group - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
Communication tactics

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record financial-recovery-group Financial Recovery Group

Grade F · 2 CFPB filings · 0% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #4065 · compose #4974

VOL 2
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #4,065
COMPOSE #4,974

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1 Auto Finance, Inc. (2 complaints)

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

Financial Recovery Group's 2 CFPB complaints sit next to 1 Auto Finance, 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

50.0% of Financial Recovery Group's CFPB filings land in Florida

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Financial Recovery Group is volume #4,065 but composite #4,974, while Florida dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Florida 50.0%; 1 of 2 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2016-04 25.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #4,065 volume; #4,974 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 909 places worse than volume

How does Financial Recovery Group compare to its peers?

How does Financial Recovery Group 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 Recovery Gro… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

50%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-04 2025-09

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
Communication tactics	1

Where do complaints against Financial Recovery Group come from?

Financial Recovery Group's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Florida

1
Texas

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Financial Recovery Group: 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: 2.

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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