• EDU: Issues relating to )1) debt collection, especially private collection of outstanding student loans, and (2) student loans. TAX: Issues relating to debt collection, especially potential private collection of outstanding tax debt. MED: Issues relating to recovery of medicare and medicaid overpayments.

Duration: January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Medicare/Medicaid

Spending: about $0 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2006:

Affiliated organizations: Diversified Collection Services, Inc.; Vista Financial, Inc.; Performant Audit & Recovery