What is the most common complaint against Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief?

The most common issue consumers report about Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief is "False statements or representation", specifically "Impersonated attorney, law enforcement, or government official". This is based on 2 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief's reputation grade?

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief has a reputation grade of A (score: 74.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief respond to consumer complaints?

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief operate?

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from Georgia (1 complaints).

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

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade A.

Compiled by PlainCollector

False statements or representation

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record start-connecting-dba-usa-student-debt-relief Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief

Grade A · 2 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: False statements or representation · vol #4345 · compose #1005

VOL 2
GRADE A
12MO 0
STATES 2
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE False statements or repres…
RANK #4,345
COMPOSE #1,005

Volume peers

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

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

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief'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

50.0% of Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief's CFPB filings land in Georgia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief is volume #4,345 but composite #1,005, while Georgia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Georgia 50.0%; 1 of 2 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2013-12 25.0%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #4,345 volume; #1,005 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,340 places better than volume

How does Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief compare to its peers?

How does Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Start Connecting dba U… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

50%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2013-12 2019-10

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
False statements or representation	2

Where do complaints against Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief come from?

Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Georgia

1
Puerto Rico

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Start Connecting dba USA Student Debt Relief: 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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