What is the most common complaint against Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Seized or attempted to seize your property". This is based on 2 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC's reputation grade?

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC has a reputation grade of B (score: 69.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC respond to consumer complaints?

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC has a 50% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC operate?

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from Minnesota (2 complaints).

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

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record hellmuth-johnson-pllc Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC

Grade B · 2 CFPB filings · 50% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #4120 · compose #1373

VOL 2
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 1
TIMELY 50%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #4,120
COMPOSE #1,373

Volume peers

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

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

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC'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

100.0% of Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC's CFPB filings land in Minnesota

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC is volume #4,120 but composite #1,373, while Minnesota dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Minnesota 100.0%; 2 of 2 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2014-04 50.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #4,120 volume; #1,373 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,747 places better than volume

How does Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC compare to its peers?

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

Hellmuth & Johnson, PL… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

50%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2014-04 2017-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC come from?

Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Minnesota

2

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC: 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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