US discharged bankrupts still haunted by zombie debts
The problem, officials suspect, is that some of the biggest banks ignore court discharges
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IN THE netherworld of consumer debt, there are zombies: bills that cannot be killed even by declaring personal bankruptcy.
Tens of thousands of Americans who went through bankruptcy are still haunted by debts long after - sometimes as long as a decade after - federal judges have extinguished the bills in court.
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