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?

If you're suffering under the weight of medical debt, you could soon see your credit score increase. A new federal policy now bans lenders and credit reporting companies from holding your unpaid ...

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 ...

By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen January 9, 2025 Poverty advocates in Indiana are hoping a new federal rule that could ...

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.

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

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 ...

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