CFPB · Single-product concentration

Southwest Collection Services, LLC

20 CFPB complaints · 70% in "Debt collection" · top issue Attempts to collect debt not owed.

20 CFPB complaints

Southwest Collection Services, LLC: 70% of 20 CFPB complaints sit in "Debt collection". Timely 100% · relief 30%. Allegations, not findings.

  • Single-product concentration
  • -75% filings 2020 to 2024

CFPB relief outcome brief

CCDB company southwest-collection-services-llc

30% relief · 100% timely · 20 filings · Debt collection

Nearest relief peer: TriVerity, Inc. (29.4% relief)

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Closed-with-relief % among Southwest Collection Services, LLC and nearest filing-volume peers

Southwest Collection Services, LLC closes 30% with relief, above the 1.3% industry median among companies with ≥10 complaints. How CFPB response codes work →

Response Quality Score

Southwest Collection Services, LLC scores strongest on relief provided (100/100 percentile-benchmarked) and weakest on closed with explanation (45/100), blended into one 0–100 composite against the CFPB-wide distribution among companies with 10+ complaints. See methodology for the benchmark and weights.

86 /100 grade A

Relief provided

100 / 100 percentile-benchmarked

30% of complaints closed with relief to the consumer

Timely response

100 / 100 percentile-benchmarked

100% of complaints answered inside the CFPB 15-day window

Closed with explanation

45 / 100 percentile-benchmarked

70% of complaints closed with an explanation to the consumer

Most of Southwest Collection Services, LLC's 20 filings include narrative text

50% 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.

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Timely response rate 100.0%
Federal benchmark

CFPB benchmark: response within 15 calendar days of filing.

Relief rate 30.0%
Industry median (≥10 complaints)

Share closed with monetary or non-monetary relief.

Southwest Collection Services, LLC complaint mix by product

Total complaints: 20

Southwest Collection Services, LLC complaint mix by product Horizontal strip chart. Width of each segment is proportional to that category's share of the 20 total complaints. Trend arrow shows rolling 12-month direction. Inline badge shows resolution rate (% closed with relief). Debt collection: 14 complaints (70.0%), resolution 28.6% Debt collection 70.0% Credit reporting,: 6 complaints (30.0%), resolution 33.3% Credit reporting, 30.0%
  • Debt collection 14 70.0% – 29% relief
  • Credit reporting, 6 30.0% – 33% relief

How Southwest Collection Services, LLC's 20 complaints split across CFPB product categories. Resolution rate badge = % closed with monetary or non-monetary relief.

Complaints by Product

Product Complaints
Debt collection 14
Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports 6

Concentrated filing states for Southwest Collection Services, LLC

Top states by attributed CFPB complaint volume for this company

Concentrated footprint
Leading state
LA
70% of this company's filings
LA14TX5

Southwest Collection Services, LLC falling annual filings

Annual filing volume from the CFPB public database

Falling vs first year
2024
1
-75% vs 2020
0246810 2020202120222024 1

Top States

State Complaints
LA 14
TX 5

Top Issues

Issue Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed 8
Written notification about debt 5
Incorrect information on your report 4
Improper use of your report 2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action 1

Yearly Trend

Year Complaints Timely
2020 4 100%
2021 8 100%
2022 7 100%
2024 1 100%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

Southwest Collection Services, LLC filings cluster in one product

Southwest Collection Services, LLC's 20 logged complaints stay concentrated: only 2 states show a filing. 50% of filings carry a written consumer narrative, an unusually well-documented record. Records run from 2020 through 2024-02-13.

Southwest Collection Services, LLC answers 100% of complaints inside the CFPB's tracked window and closes 70% with a written explanation. 30% 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 Southwest Collection Services, LLC.

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainComplaint-derived comparison paths for Southwest Collection 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.

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 Southwest Collection Services, LLC (100% timely; 30% relief). methodology.

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