What happens if you don’t pay court-ordered restitution?
A reader is making his court ordered restitution payments, but he’s still getting trouble for it. See how our expert says to handle the problem.
Mandi Woodruff
Mandi Woodruff has nearly a decade of experience as a journalist and has spent the bulk of her career covering the ins and out of personal finance. In 2015, she launched the career and money podcast Brown Ambition, which airs weekly on iTunes. Before joining MagnifyMoney, Mandi was the personal finance correspondent at Yahoo Finance and the personal finance editor at Business Insider. She graduated from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Georgia.
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