Unpaid medical bills will no longer affect credit scores after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday finalized a rule to remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit ...

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit ...

Debt collection trade group ACA International and Specialized Collections Systems, a Houston-based debt collector, filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleging its medical ...

On January 8, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) officially recognized Financial Data Exchange, Inc. (FDX) as ...

However, it's important to note that while this rule prevents medical debt from affecting credit scores, it doesn't eliminate the debt itself. You should still work with healthcar ...

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

In a groundbreaking move, the Biden administration has introduced a new rule that will prevent unpaid medical bills from ...

While the actual registration process has been going smoothly, there's some confusion among nonbanks over the timing and what ...

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.

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 ...

Amid the final stretch of the Biden-Harris Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has delivered a ...