Newman, Hesse & Associates, P. A. CFPB Complaints

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Date Received	Timely Response	Product	Issue	State / Zip	Submitted Via	Tags
01/29/2023	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	Written notification about debt Didn't receive enough information to verify debt	KS 67203	Web
XXXX XX/XX/XXXX there was information sent to my place of work stating I that I owed Dillons # XXXX grocery store located in XXXX ks XXXX In the amount of {$1900.00} I received this information thru my work email from the XXXX department. when I seen the email send from HR I readched out to HR regarding the information about me owing XXXX grocery store. I did letting them know I didn't know where and how I could owe XXXX its a grocery and i've shopped there, but i paid with cash or used a food stamp card or a prepaid debit card. my place of employment received on XX/XX/XXXX a paper work dated XXXX XXXX from Newman , Hesse & Associates, P.A. Attorneys At Law, s fI reached out to the Hr department asking what could I do about this because i don ; t and still dont know anything about this, I did advise HR that I do have Identity theft on my name. and how can they just garnish my check without even knowing if I have occured this amount to the this grocery store,. I then reached out the attorney thru email about this asking if i could get more information about this debt that I was suppose to have accrude, the attorney XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX ks XXXX. the attorney told me that he wasnt giving me anymore information that i have been served. Inwhich I never knew anything about this until I got a email from my employer sent in a email. I have lived in XXXX since XXXX and never receieved any paper wrk from a attorney that i owed dillons store. the only paper work ive gotten from this is was i copied from the email that was sent to me thru email from my employer the letter the attorney sent to my employer. The attorney refused to give me more information besides what was sent to my employer. since then my wages have been garnished 25 % of my wages everytime i get paid. its not small amounts XXXX or more each i get pay. i wasnt event given a chance to check into this, Im a honest person and iff i have accured that amount of money to a grocery I would remember that this ws somthing from XXXX 18 years ago. ive been having my wages garnished every since, this has put me in a bad situation to im getting behind in my bill due to money being taken from me. when i didnt live in salina I never agreed to anyone to ppay nothing back. i dont even know where the charges come from .so how can anyone just take someone ; s money from them and not give them more information about. it'snot right. this attorney dont know my life, he dont know what i go thru on a daily to survive with the way things in this world is going the struggle is real i feel that my right to know or even given a chance to verify to them that i dont ow this debt to XXXX, this was never on my credit I also reached out to the XXXX company as well and knows nothing. I dont think its right that a person and or persons can say a person owes someone money that can just take your and not give you any information, regarding that i owe money to a grocery store. i wasnt given a change to verify that i didnt make those charges.
08/10/2020	Yes	Debt collection Other debt	Written notification about debt Didn't receive notice of right to dispute	TX XXXXX	Web
When I received my pay check notification from my employer XXXX XXXX, I was surprised to see that there was a creditor garnishment deducted from my pay. I have not received any notices, summons, etc. I called my employer 's pay check processor, XXXX who gave me the contact information of the company. After my request to cease the unknown garnishment, they told me their policy was to refer me to the company that submitted the Writ of Garnishment to them. I went to my local Human Resource department also and they are working with the Headquarters to seek resolution. I called the agency, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, and asked about the garnishment. XXXX ( XXXX? ) told me this was for a check for {$18.00} to XXXX XXXX that was supposed to be written by me in XXXX ( 27 years ago ) and now it was a Judgement filed on it that grew to {$1200.00} with legal fees and 17 % compounded interest???. I was never given any notice about an NSF check, never on XXXX XXXXXXXX for a bad check. No notice-now or then! It seems like a scam that resulted in successfully getting my employer to allow an illegal garnishment. Had I been notified, I would have fought and disputed this fraudulent claim. In addition to no notice given, I live and work in Texas. This is not a garnishing state. When I said this to XXXX in our brief conversation, she simply said that 'he knows what he is doing and knows the law. ' When I researched on collection in Kansas, there is no Judgement that is extended more than 10 years with 10 year extension. This has been 27 years. Next, when I received the short detail sheet from XXXX on Friday XX/XX/XXXX ; it said that court was on XX/XX/XXXX. How is this??? This is fraud and I need assistance getting my money returned and to stop the garnishments immediately. Thank you.
10/20/2016	No	Debt collection I do not know	Disclosure verification of debt Right to dispute notice not received	KS 67801	Web
I unknowingly wrote a bad {$40.00}. check for groceries at a very prosperous business ( and still is ) 18 years ago. The first collection agency had the case from XXXX to XXXX. The second collection agency has the case currently since XXXX. I live in Kansas. They garnished my check in XXXX, but I had to be at home for personal reason and had to quit. First, they contacted me at my place of employment, which they deny. I answered the phone at work, asked my name. I asked who they were, and they hung up on me. It was a number from their same city of their business. Then I get notice that I 'm getting garnished not even a week and a half later. I did not receive notice of right to dispute this amount. No time of hearing. All I received was notice that they went to court and got approved by the judge to garnish. I called them, and they informed me that they have renewed the case every time they were supposed to keep it from being time-barred. XXXX and XXXX They did not keep within the time allotted to renew. It went dormant. XXXX Kansas law allows a recovery fee charge, court costs, up to 3 times the original amount of the check, but it can not exceed XXXX. They are taking out the maximum amount from my check every week. 25 %. The amount they are telling me I have to pay is {$1000.00}, all from a XXXX dollar check. I believe the amount they are making me pay, and leading me to believe I cant dispute because " the judge granted them that amount '' is outrageous, and they already have taken out atleast XXXX from me. I have XXXX children to care for. This is insane.
02/20/2020	Yes	Debt collection Other debt	Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly Talked to a third-party about your debt	WA 99207	Web	Servicemember
On XX/XX/XXXX, received in the mail an garnishment notification from Newman, Hesse and Associates, P.A. from XXXX, KS for a bad debt from check written in XXXX KS, on XX/XX/XXXX. This was the first I have heard about the check. I left Kansas in XXXX after college and was never served by the court or collector, never got any mail on it nor was I informed by anyone on this. I was never able to represent myself or even attempt to pay it ( with no contact how would I know ) however this group filed in XX/XX/XXXX with XXXX county court for judgement, then in XX/XX/XXXX took it to court again. Filed a third time in XX/XX/XXXX, a fourth time in XX/XX/XXXX, the fifth time XX/XX/XXXX, and finally in XX/XX/XXXX got a garnishment setup. With this garnishment they did not even send it to a correct employer. I do not work in XXXX IL. My employer does not do business in XXXX nor am I a resident there. From what I also understand is that they also have to file in the local state to garnish to begin with. I check my credit and nothing there either. With this debt they are running up the bill which started at XXXX after fees and charges is now XXXX. This is robbery. Plus my information is now with a company I do not work for or do business with. They need to be stopped. I have had no notification from the state nor the company except this letter which I took the AG for Kansas ( how I got the info on what it was on ). The state of Kansas knew where I lived for the last 18 years as we paid a debt my wife owed. This is unfair and wrong and after 20 years ridiculous.
09/06/2023	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly Contacted your employer	KS 66605	Web
I received a email from my job on XX/XX/XXXX stating that a debt collector " Newman, Hesse & Associates '' for XXXX XXXX has entered a court arrangement to garnish wages, the order was made in court on XX/XX/XXXX and wages were taken from that upcoming pay week. On XX/XX/XXXX contacted original creditor company ( XXXX XXXX XXXX ) at number " XXXX '' and the number was disconnected this company is no longer in operation. I then contacted Newman, Hesse, & Associates at XXXX, the automated system told me to enter an extension, which was not provided in the paperwork and no one answered the main number listed that I called on multiple occasions, Finally on XX/XX/XXXX or XXXX I called the XXXX department for my job " XXXX '' and let them know that this is a fraud and to stop the garnishment, XXXX reached out to company and I was transferred to a male " XXXX '' who told me that I was served court orders in XXXX, and I did not respond. I informed him to show me proof and to correspond my mail. I mailed an affidavit of truth along with a letter asking for the debtor to provide me with evidence of the debt. This was mailed out on XX/XX/XXXX via certified mail. I also sent a letter regarding statute of limitations along with debt validation letter via email to XXXX and XXXX XXXX
09/06/2023	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly Contacted your employer	KS 66605	Web
I received a email from my job on XX/XX/XXXX stating that a debt collector " Newman, Hesse & Associates '' for XXXX XXXX has entered a court arrangement to garnish wages, the order was made in court on XX/XX/XXXX and wages were taken from that upcoming pay week. On XX/XX/XXXX contacted original creditor company ( XXXX XXXX XXXX ) at number " XXXX '' and the number was disconnected this company is no longer in operation. I then contacted Newman, Hesse, & Associates at XXXX, the automated system told me to enter an extension, which was not provided in the paperwork and no one answered the main number listed that I called on multiple occasions, Finally on XX/XX/XXXX or XXXX I called the HR department for my job " XXXX '' and let them know that this is a fraud and to stop the garnishment, XXXX reached out to company and I was transferred to a male " XXXX '' who told me that I was served court orders in XXXX, and I did not respond. I informed him to show me proof and to correspond my mail. I mailed an affidavit of truth along with a letter asking for the debtor to provide me with evidence of the debt. This was mailed out on XX/XX/XXXX via certified mail. I also sent a letter regarding statute of limitations along with debt validation letter via email to XXXX and XXXX XXXX
08/13/2019	Yes	Debt collection Other debt	Took or threatened to take negative or legal action Threatened to sue you for very old debt	MO 645XX	Web
On XX/XX/XXXX, an amount around {$100.00} was garnished from my paycheck in Missouri. I received no notice of this action and asked my company to send me a copy of the papers they had received. Upon receipt of a copy on XX/XX/XXXX, I called the company, Newman Hesse & Associates PA out of XXXX, KS. The woman who answered the phone asked for the case number and told me the case was for a {$20.00} returned check supposedly written in XXXX and that I was served by tacking a letter to the door of where I had been living at the time. I received no such notice and never saw this debt appear on any of my credit reports. The statute of limitations has expired on any action they could take on this debt. They had a judge in XXXX XXXX KS electronically sign a garnishment order for {$1400.00}. I have not lived in Kansas since XXXX and was certainly findable between XXXX and XXXX, and have no record of this judgment from XXXX or from any year since then if they continually renewed it, which would make no sense for a {$20.00} debt which the company surely wrote off as a loss. As soon as I said I would be contacting an attorney, she immediately said I can no longer speak to them at all and hung up on me.
10/25/2017	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	Took or threatened to take negative or legal action Threatened to sue you for very old debt	KS 662XX	Web
I got a judgement placed against me in XXXX ( after the money order for the original debt had been received & cashed ). Anyhow, I thought after they rec'vd the money order they would just drop the case. They did not. They got the judgement because I did not show up to court. I hired a lawyer to help me with the case in XXXX. I thought the lawyer I hired took care of the case, only to find out recently that the Lawyer I hired had been disbarred. Now they are tacking on 10 years worth of interest & they have my social security number on display on the XXXX XXXX XXXX for the world to see. Its a debt collection Law Firm called XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX, PA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, KS XXXX ( XXXX )
02/24/2021	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	Took or threatened to take negative or legal action Threatened to sue you for very old debt	KS 660XX	Web
I received a letter from a law firm informing me that they were going to garnish my wages for a debt they say is from 2006. I have never seen this debt on any of my credit reports nor have I ever been previously notified of it. They also addressed this letter to my name and another name ( similar to mine, as an AKA, but never a name I have used or had ). Upon contacting the court that this is going through, they informed me that it is a legit case and said that they were trying to take over {$1000.00} from me. I have never had a debt that large in my lifetime.
01/18/2019	Yes	Debt collection Other debt	Took or threatened to take negative or legal action Seized or attempted to seize your property	TX 75115	Web	Servicemember
Sent me a letter threatening to garnish my wages without showing me any type of verification of a contract between me and them. And further more the supposed debt is 20 years old and the of limitations to collect in the state of Kansas is five years, furthermore I reside in the State of Texas, which means by law I fall under the state of Texas not Kansas. Which theirs is five years also which means the statue of limitations has expired and them trying to collect on such a debt is illegal.
03/02/2017	Yes	Debt collection Other (i.e. phone, health club, etc.)	Disclosure verification of debt Right to dispute notice not received	KS 672XX	Web
I supposedly wrote a bad check at a grocery store for my guess is around 100 $ in the year 1999. The garnishment order states that XXXX grocery has a garnishment order against me represented by debt collectors Newman and Hesse in XXXX Ks in the amount of XXXX, XXXX $ I was never informed or given anything to contest this issue. I think the garnishment order is way outrageous and I was n't given notice of any sort.
02/15/2020	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	False statements or representation Indicated you were committing crime by not paying debt	IL 61109	Web
Newman, Hesse & Associates garnished my wages in XX/XX/XXXX while working at XXXX XXXX for {$2000.00}. Upon completion of payments I was sent a Release Of Garnishment, evidenced in the upload. Today XX/XX/XXXX I received a letter of garnishment for the exact same case number that was paid in XX/XX/XXXX as evidenced via the upload.
11/03/2018	No	Debt collection I do not know	Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly Contacted your employer	IL 61109	Web
I have received a garnishment on my most recent payroll from my place of employment at XXXX XXXX in XXXX, Illinois XXXX in the amount of {$170.00}. Today XX/XX/2018 I received a letter from Newman, Hesse & Associates, which I have attached and uploaded. This letter has Case No. XXXX and I have no idea where this came from?
08/10/2022	Yes	Debt collection I do not know	False statements or representation Impersonated attorney, law enforcement, or government official	OK 73127	Web
Newman, Hesse and Associates filed a garnishment with my employer using a false court case number. When i looked the case number up in court records it came to a different person and county. Also I was not notified about the gatnishment either by the agency or my wmploywr before the money was taken from my check.
04/27/2019	Yes	Debt collection Other debt	Written notification about debt Didn't receive enough information to verify debt	TX 75115	Web	Servicemember