What is the most common complaint against Lobel Financial Corporation?

The most common issue consumers report about Lobel Financial Corporation is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Attempted to collect wrong amount". This is based on 158 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Lobel Financial Corporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Lobel Financial Corporation are rising. The company received 49 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Lobel Financial Corporation's reputation grade?

Lobel Financial Corporation has a reputation grade of C (score: 55.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Lobel Financial Corporation respond to consumer complaints?

Lobel Financial Corporation has a 99% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 24% of cases.

In how many states does Lobel Financial Corporation operate?

Lobel Financial Corporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 21 states, with the most complaints from California (65 complaints).

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

Lobel Financial Corporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 21 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

44
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

39
Written notification about debt

27
False statements or representation

26
Disclosure verification of debt

5
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

5

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record lobel-financial-corporation Lobel Financial Corporation

Grade C · 158 CFPB filings · 99% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #641 · compose #3169

VOL 158
GRADE C
12MO 49
STATES 21
TIMELY 99%
DISPUTE 24%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #641
COMPOSE #3,169

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Arnold Scott Harris, P.C. (158 complaints)

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

Lobel Financial Corporation's 158 CFPB complaints sit next to Arnold Scott Harris, P.C. 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

41.1% of Lobel Financial Corporation's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Lobel Financial Corporation is volume #641 but composite #3,169, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 41.1%; 65 of 158 filings · 21 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2024-07 12.8%; 8–15% band · 5 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #641 volume; #3,169 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,528 places worse than volume

How does Lobel Financial Corporation compare to its peers?

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

LOBEL FINANCIAL CORPOR… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

99%

82%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

24%

29%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2021-11 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	44
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	39
Written notification about debt	27
False statements or representation	26
Disclosure verification of debt	5
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	5
Communication tactics	4
Improper contact or sharing of info	4
Taking/threatening an illegal action	3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Lobel Financial Corporation come from?

Lobel Financial Corporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

65
Texas

31
Florida

21
Arizona

8
Nevada

8
Colorado

4
Georgia

4
Iowa

2

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Lobel Financial Corporation: 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: 158.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 98.65771812080537%.

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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