Americans will no longer have to decide what’s more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a ...

Unpaid medical debt will no longer affect credit scores, according to a new rule from Biden administration regulators who ...

The Biden administration finalized a new rule that will prevent Americans from the harm caused by medical debt, including ...

While highlighting the new rule, Harris spotlighted a Black couple in Atlanta who saw their credit score drop due to medical ...

Americans won’t have to worry about unpaid medical bills damaging their credit reports and scores much longer.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday finalized its rule barring medical debt from being included on ...

Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on consumer credit reports, which can result in people being blocked mortgages and ...

The Biden administration is banning medical debt on credit reports. Americans won’t have to worry about unpaid medical bills damaging their credit reports and scores much longer. The Biden ...

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We also reduced the burden of medical debt by increasing pathways to forgiveness and cracking down on predatory debt collection tactics,” Harris said in a statement. Medical debt experts have ...

Medical bills accounted for more than half of debt collection on consumers' credit records, according to a 2022 report from the consumer agency. After that report, the three largest credit ...

By Madeleine Ngo Reporting from Washington The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved on Tuesday to ban medical debt from appearing ... find it difficult to do so. “Undoing these protections ...