The ruling targets a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would have removed medical debt from 15 million credit ...

An estimated one-fifth of U.S. households have medical debt on their credit reports, a burden that makes it more expensive ...

A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have ...

Consumers were dealt a blow after a federal judge in Texas voided a Biden-era rule that would ban the inclusion of medical ...

Worsening a patient's credit can prevent them from getting a job, renting an apartment, or even paying their outstanding ...

A federal judge has granted trade associations and the Trump administration’s request to vacate a Consumer Financial ...

"The CFPB's final rule will close a special carveout that has allowed debt collectors to abuse the credit reporting system to coerce people into paying medical bills they may not even owe." CFPB ...

Finalized on January 7, a new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) prohibits credit reporting agencies from including medical debt information in the credit reports and scores ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday finalized its rule barring medical debt from being included on credit reports, potentially freeing up billions in credit.

Amid a regulatory push ahead of the White House transition, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled a new rule on Tuesday to eliminate medical debt from credit reports.The ...

The rule would have removed more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans, the ...

The CFPB’s finalized rule essentially restores a provision of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970, which restricted the sharing of medical information with consumer reporting agencies.