The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a rule to keep medical bills off of consumers’ credit reports.

A credit reporting agency is a company that collects information about your borrowing and repayment history and compiles the information into a credit report. Lenders, landlords, employers and others ...

Moreover, bureaus will monitor compliance with these timelines and bi-annually report any lenders failing to meet these ...

Opposition is quickly forming against the Biden administration’s rule to ban medical debt from appearing on consumers’ credit ...

Ramp reviews how credit card providers report card activity to credit bureaus, why having a business credit card that reports ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million for credit reporting errors. The CFPB alleged the credit ...

The CFPB estimates credit scores could jump by up to 20 points when medical debt disappears from reports. That impact can be ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Friday it had fined credit reporting bureau Equifax $15 million for failing to sufficiently investigate consumer disputes of its credit ...

Equifax will pay a $15 million penalty for failing to properly investigate credit report disputes.

Despite creditors being banned from considering medical debt for those looking to get a loan, experts say those who owe money ...

On January 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a final Rule (the “Rule”) that prohibits consumer reporting ...