The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is tasked with writing and enforcing rules for the financial industry. How might the independent federal agency change under the Trump administration?

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

One of the largest debt collectors has faced penalties for violating consumer rights. Still, it filed more than 20,000 lawsuits in Maricopa County since 2022.

There is an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it would undertake a rule to regulate large participants in the personal loan ...

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 ...

The Biden administration is finalizing a rule that will help millions of Americans battling bad credit due to medical debt.

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Outstanding medical debt can no longer impact Americans’ credit scores, according to a rule ...

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

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

In this edition of InnovationRx, medical debts will be erased from credit histories, this farm is doubling down on raw milk ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the final days of the Biden administration, announced Tuesday it has finalized a ...