Americans will no longer have to decide what’s more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a ...

New CFPB rule removes medical debt from credit reports, impacting 15 million Americans. The rule aims to improve credit ...

A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule means consumers’ hospital and doctor bills can no longer weigh down their ...

Debt collection trade group ACA International and Specialized Collections Systems, a Houston-based debt collector, filed a ...

The move, which comes less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, represents a challenge ...

Removing medical debts from consumer credit reports is expected to boost the credit scores of millions of families by an ...

The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering ...

The Biden Administration finalized a rule that bans credit reporting agencies from including medical debt when calculating ...

A trade group representing consumer credit reporting companies and a Texas-based credit union association have filed a ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) finalized a rule aimed at removing an estimated $49 billion in ...

The CFPB said the new rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million ...

Debt collectors sued in Texas federal court to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ban on medical debt in credit ...