CFPB · Single-product concentration
Professional Placement Services, LLC
225 CFPB complaints · 84.4% in "Debt collection" · top issue Attempts to collect debt not owed.
Professional Placement Services, LLC: 84.4% of 225 CFPB complaints sit in "Debt collection". Timely 100% · relief 0%. Allegations, not findings.
- Single-product concentration
- +1400% filings 2013 to 2023
CFPB relief outcome brief
CCDB company professional-placement-services-llc
0% relief · 100% timely · 225 filings · Debt collection
Same-product relief peers
Nearest relief peer: Transworld Systems Inc (0% relief)
Professional Placement Services, LLC closes 0% with relief, below the 1.3% industry median among companies with ≥10 complaints. How CFPB response codes work →
Most of Professional Placement Services, LLC's 225 filings include narrative text
46.2% carry a written consumer narrative, this ledger is unusually text-rich for a CFPB company page. Counts still add to the company's total filings; narrative presence is not a severity finding.
CFPB benchmark: response within 15 calendar days of filing.
Share closed with monetary or non-monetary relief.
Professional Placement Services, LLC complaint mix by product
- Debt collection 190 84.4% – 0% relief
- Credit reporting, 32 14.2% – 0% relief
- Checking or 1 0.4% – 0% relief
- Credit reporting 1 0.4% – 0% relief
- Credit reporting 1 0.4% – 0% relief
How Professional Placement Services, LLC's 225 complaints split across CFPB product categories. Resolution rate badge = % closed with monetary or non-monetary relief.
Complaints by Product
| Product | Complaints |
|---|---|
| Debt collection | 190 |
| Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports | 32 |
| Checking or savings account | 1 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | 1 |
| Credit reporting | 1 |
Concentrated filing states for Professional Placement Services, LLC
Top states by attributed CFPB complaint volume for this company
- Leading state
- WI
- 42.7% of this company's filings
Professional Placement Services, LLC rising annual filings
Annual filing volume from the CFPB public database
- 2023
- 30
- +1400% vs 2013
Top States
| State | Complaints |
|---|---|
| WI | 96 |
| IL | 76 |
| TX | 12 |
| GA | 7 |
| FL | 5 |
| MN | 5 |
| CA | 4 |
| AZ | 4 |
| IN | 2 |
| UT | 1 |
| NC | 1 |
| MI | 1 |
| NV | 1 |
| CO | 1 |
| NY | 1 |
| MD | 1 |
| IA | 1 |
| OK | 1 |
| VA | 1 |
| PA | 1 |
Top Issues
| Issue | Complaints |
|---|---|
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | 74 |
| Written notification about debt | 47 |
| Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed | 21 |
| Communication tactics | 16 |
| Incorrect information on your report | 13 |
| Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem | 12 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 11 |
| False statements or representation | 10 |
| Improper use of your report | 8 |
| Disclosure verification of debt | 8 |
| Closing an account | 1 |
| Improper contact or sharing of info | 1 |
| Incorrect information on credit report | 1 |
| Taking/threatening an illegal action | 1 |
| Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly | 1 |
Yearly Trend
| Year | Complaints | Timely |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 100% |
| 2014 | 5 | 100% |
| 2015 | 6 | 100% |
| 2016 | 17 | 100% |
| 2017 | 20 | 100% |
| 2018 | 17 | 100% |
| 2019 | 9 | 100% |
| 2020 | 10 | 100% |
| 2021 | 41 | 100% |
| 2022 | 68 | 100% |
| 2023 | 30 | 100% |
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
Professional Placement Services, LLC filings cluster in one product
Professional Placement Services, LLC's 225 logged complaints stay concentrated: only 23 states show a filing. 46.2% of filings carry a written consumer narrative, an unusually well-documented record. Records run from 2013 through 2023-10-05.
Professional Placement Services, LLC answers 100% of complaints inside the CFPB's tracked window and closes 100% with a written explanation. 0% end in monetary or non-monetary relief for the consumer. Consumers disputed just 0% of responses after the company replied. "Debt collection" draws the most filings, most often for "Attempts to collect debt not owed."
A complaint is a consumer-reported allegation, not proven wrongdoing. See the disclaimer below for how volume relates to company size, and cross-check against the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database directly before drawing conclusions about Professional Placement Services, LLC.
Compare beyond geography
Nationwide peers by volume & timely response
Two PlainComplaint-derived comparison paths for Professional Placement Services, LLC: nearest filing volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among companies with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.
Similar filing volume
Nearest companies by total CFPB complaints. This record: 225.
Similar timely response rate
Nearest companies by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 100%.
Disclaimer: This data is from CFPB public records. PlainComplaint does not provide financial advice. A complaint does not indicate that a company has violated any law or regulation. Complaint volumes are influenced by company size, customer base, and market presence. Use this data as one of many inputs when evaluating a company.
Data sourced from official public datasets for Professional Placement Services, LLC (100% timely; 0% relief). methodology.
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