This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.
Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile
CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade D.
Complaints by issue type
What consumers report about Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.
- Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
6 complaints
- Attempts to collect debt not owed
Attempts to collect debt not owed
5 complaints
- Written notification about debt
Written notification about debt
5 complaints
- False statements or representation
False statements or representation
4 complaints
- Communication tactics 2
Communication tactics
2 complaints
Data updated September 2026
CFPB complaint disposition
CCDB record portnoff-law-associates-ltd Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.
Grade D · 22 CFPB filings · 95% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1816 · compose #3304
- VOL 22
- GRADE D
- 12MO 2
- STATES 2
- TIMELY 95%
- ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
- RANK #1,816
- COMPOSE #3,304
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Abrahamsen Ratchford, P.C (22 complaints)
Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.'s 22 CFPB complaints sit next to Abrahamsen Ratchford, 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
90.9% of Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.'s CFPB filings land in Pennsylvania
High volume does not equal a clean composite: Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd. is volume #1,816 but composite #3,304, while Pennsylvania dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.
- Dominant state
- Pennsylvania 90.9%
- 20 of 22 filings · 2 states touched
- Seasonal peak
- 2023-08 12.1%
- 8–15% band · 4 filings
- Divergent corpus ranks
- #1,816 volume
- #3,304 composite
- Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,488 places worse than volume
How does Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd. compare to its peers?
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.
Complaint Trend (24 months)
Issue Detail Breakdown
| Issue | Complaints |
|---|---|
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 6 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | 5 |
| Written notification about debt | 5 |
| False statements or representation | 4 |
| Communication tactics | 2 |
Where do complaints against Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd. come from?
Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.
Top states by complaints against Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.
Across 2 states with at least one filing
- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
20 complaints
- Virginia 1
Virginia
1 complaints
Compare beyond geography
Nationwide peers by volume & timely response
Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Portnoff Law Associates, Ltd.: 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: 22.
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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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