What is the most common complaint against Nationwide Credit Corporation?

The most common issue consumers report about Nationwide Credit Corporation is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 219 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Nationwide Credit Corporation increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Nationwide Credit Corporation have been stable. The company received 44 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Nationwide Credit Corporation's reputation grade?

Nationwide Credit Corporation has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.1/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Nationwide Credit Corporation respond to consumer complaints?

Nationwide Credit Corporation has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 18% of cases.

In how many states does Nationwide Credit Corporation operate?

Nationwide Credit Corporation has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 26 states, with the most complaints from Virginia (102 complaints).

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

Nationwide Credit Corporation - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 26 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

61
Written notification about debt

37
Communication tactics

34
False statements or representation

33
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

23
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

8

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record nationwide-credit-corporation Nationwide Credit Corporation

Grade C · 219 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #490 · compose #3143

VOL 219
GRADE C
12MO 44
STATES 26
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 18%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #490
COMPOSE #3,143

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: SUN Loan Company Inc. (219 complaints)

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

Nationwide Credit Corporation's 219 CFPB complaints sit next to SUN Loan Company 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

46.6% of Nationwide Credit Corporation's CFPB filings land in Virginia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Nationwide Credit Corporation is volume #490 but composite #3,143, while Virginia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Virginia 46.6%; 102 of 219 filings · 26 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2016-10 8.0%; 8–15% band · 4 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #490 volume; #3,143 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,653 places worse than volume

How does Nationwide Credit Corporation compare to its peers?

How does Nationwide Credit 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

Nationwide Credit Corp… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

100

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

96%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

18%

10%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-10 2019-04

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	61
Written notification about debt	37
Communication tactics	34
False statements or representation	33
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	23
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	8
Electronic communications	7
Taking/threatening an illegal action	5
Disclosure verification of debt	4
Improper contact or sharing of info	4

Where do complaints against Nationwide Credit Corporation come from?

Nationwide Credit Corporation's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Virginia

102
Maryland

52
District of Columbia

10
Florida

9
North Carolina

4
Delaware

3
Pennsylvania

3
Texas

3

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Nationwide Credit 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: 219.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 99.51690821256038%.

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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