I filed for bankruptcy. Why are the creditors still calling me?
This is a frequent occurrence after someone files bankruptcy. The short answer usually is that the creditor is calling you because they don’t know about the bankruptcy. Once you sign your bankruptcy paperwork, the trustee mails the documents to your creditors. It takes time for the paperwork to get to the right person working for you creditors. Other times a creditor sent the debt to a collection agent, but the bankruptcy papers were mailed to the original creditor. The best thing to do is to tell the creditor who calls that you filed for bankruptcy and give them the name and phone number of your trustee. If they call again, get the name and phone number of the person calling you and give that information to your trustee for follow-up.
posted by Rebecca Martyn, CGA, CIRP, Trustee @ 11:35 AM
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