A rule finalized this week bans outstanding medical debts from appearing on credit reports and prohibits lenders from using ...

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

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

Outstanding credit card and other revolving debt decreased $13.7 billion, the most since early in the pandemic, after surging ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has promised she will introduce a bill “ASAP” to back President-elect Trump’s idea to ...

The CFPB estimates $49 billion in medical bills will be removed from the credit reports of 15 million Americans under a new ...

Unpaid medical debt will no longer affect credit scores, according to a new rule from Biden administration regulators who ...

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

The Biden administration finalized a new rule that will prevent Americans from the harm caused by medical debt, including ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that would remove medical bills from credit reports and prevent ...

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

There is growing evidence, for example, that credit scores depressed by medical debt can threaten people’s access to housing and drive homelessness. People with low credit scores can also have trouble ...