The Biden administration finalized a new rule this week preventing medical debt from being included in credit reports, as well as prohibiting lenders from using certain medical information in loan ...

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The steady drumbeat of steps during Rohit Chopra’s tenure as CFPB Director to call into question the reliability and predictability of medical debt information in credit underwriting reached a ...

Earlier this month, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas approved a consent judgment vacating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Medical Debt Rule. The ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it finalized a rule to remove all medical debt from credit reports used by lenders. This new rule will impact about 15 million consumers, ...

The burden of medical debt may soon become much lighter for millions of Americans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule recently that aims to remove medical bills from credit ...

If you’re wondering how to get out of debt, you’re not alone — according to data from Experian, the average American is $105,000 in debt. Whether your debt is from student loans, credit cards, ...

Medical debt — a burden for nearly 15 million people in the country — will no longer haunt consumers' credit reports, according to a new federal rule that was finalized on Tuesday. The Consumer ...

Freedom Debt Relief reports on defending against credit card debt lawsuits: know your rights, gather evidence, and consider ...

Americans will no longer have to decide what's more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) prohibits ...