New California law shields medical debt from credit reports, offering financial relief to millions of residents.

When you fail to repay credit card balances you owe, those unpaid debts are eventually sold to third-party debt collection ...

But if you still owe money on your lease when you break it, your landlord could report the unpaid debt to a collection agency. "Breaking a lease could impact your credit report and credit score if ...

Starting Jan. 1, a new state law will prohibit health providers and debt collectors from reporting medical debt information ...

A charge-off is a debt that has gone continuously unpaid for a sufficient amount of time — usually around 180 days — and that ...

Throughout my 20s, I buried my head in the sand about my debt. I was living on poverty wages, and I had student loans and ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is launching a new program that could erase your outstanding medical debt.