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

CFPB complaint data Grade B 22 complaints

Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 4 states, reputation grade B.

Complaints by issue type

What consumers report about Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
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Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record sonnenschein-financial-services-inc Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.

Grade B · 22 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed

  • VOL 22
  • GRADE B
  • 12MO 0
  • STATES 4
  • TIMELY 100%
  • DISPUTE 17%
  • ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
  • RANK #1,820
  • COMPOSE Not ranked

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Abrahamsen Ratchford, P.C (22 complaints)

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

Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.'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 →

How the 22 complaints break down

Every complaint issue type on record for Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc., not just the top ones shown above.

Reputation score breakdown

B
Composite reputation score
65.2/100
Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.

Blends complaint volume, timely-response rate, dispute rate, and recent trend from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database into one comparable 0-100 score. Not an official CFPB rating and not a finding of wrongdoing — see methodology for the exact formula.

Complaint volume D
22
Fewer complaints relative to graded peers scores higher; volume reflects footprint as much as conduct.
Timely response A
100%
Share of complaints answered inside the CFPB’s 15-day window.
Dispute rate A
17%
Share of company responses the consumer disputed as inadequate; lower is better.
Recent trend B
Falling
Whether the last 12 months of complaints are rising, stable, or falling vs the prior period.

State-heavy filing map

86.4% of Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in Illinois

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state
Illinois 86.4%
19 of 22 filings · 4 states touched
Spike month
2023-06 50.0%
1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks
#1,820 volume
Composite not ranked (fewer than 200 complaints)
Volume rank among 5,420 collectors

How does Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count
Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. National average
Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better
0
0
268
Timely-response ratehigher is better
100%
68%
91%
Consumer-dispute ratelower is better
17%
0%
19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Response speed vs. dispute rate, among similar-volume collectors

Timely response and dispute rate track only weakly together nationally (r=0.22 among collectors with 5+ complaints): answering promptly does not reliably buy Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. a lower dispute rate.

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 6 entities by Timely response rate (%) (X) and Dispute rate (%) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Responsive but disputedSlow & disputedResponsive & trustedSlow but undisputed 20%40%60%80%100%120% 0%10%20%30% Timely response rate (%) Dispute rate (%) Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. vs. 5 similar-volume peers, by response speed and dispute rate Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.Summit Financial Corp.R J Baucum Enterprises, Inc.UMB FINANCIAL CORPORATIONPhelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, PCUMPQUA HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.'s complaint volume in context

Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. vs all collectors by complaint volume

Where this collector's total CFPB complaint count sits among every tracked debt collector (volume, not a quality ranking)

22 66th percentile higher than 66% of 5,420 collectors

0–20: 3,504 collectors (65%). Below this entry. 20–40: 565 collectors (10%). This entry sits in this band. 40–60: 260 collectors (5%). Above this entry. 60–80: 163 collectors (3%). Above this entry. 80–100: 112 collectors (2%). Above this entry. 100–120: 63 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 120–140: 67 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 140–160: 53 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 160–180: 42 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 180–200: 55 collectors (1%). Above this entry. 200–220: 536 collectors (10%). Above this entry. Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. 0 220 tracked debt collectors, bucketed by value

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Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database · September 2026

Complaint Trend (24 months)

Falling ↓
2023-06 2023-07

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed
7
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action
5
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed
3
Disclosure verification of debt
3
Written notification about debt
2
Communication tactics
2

Where do complaints against Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc. come from?

Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Top states by complaints against Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.

Across 4 states with at least one filing

complaints
Source CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Sonnenschein Financial Services, Inc.: 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.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

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