The three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — announced last year that they would remove medical collections under $500 from U.S. consumer credit reports. The CFPB ...

A federal judge has halted a CFPB rule aimed at removing unpaid medical debt from credit reports, impacting 15 million Americans. The decision underscores the ongoing debate over the role of medical ...

Finance companies can continue to make lending decisions based on information about medical bills contained in consumer credit reports, a judge rules.

A federal judge blocked a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have stopped medical bills from ...

A Texas federal judge has voided a Biden Administration CFPB rule that would have prohibited medical debt in credit reports. “The Bureau has no such power to define what in a consumer report is ...

CFPB research has indicated that medical debt on credit reports is “a poor predictor” of whether a person will repay a loan, ...

A federal judge in Texas reversed a Biden-era rule on Friday that permitted medical debt to be wiped from credit reports, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan, a 2019 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday paused a lawsuit against the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had sought to strike ...

A Biden-era measure to protect Americans from financial hardship by removing medical debt from credit reports has been axed by a federal judge in Texas.

A judge blocked a CFPB rule to erase medical debt from credit reports, leaving 15 million consumers with bills that could hurt their credit.

According to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, nearly 20 million adults in the U.S. owe medical debt, with a total ...

An Illinois federal district court judge presiding over a revived redlining case denied a joint motion to vacate a 2024 voluntary settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ...