Reports of unpaid debt can tank an otherwise strong credit score. The new CFPB rule would change that for about 15 million ...

In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was ...

The Trump administration's rapid dismantling of the U.S. consumer protection watchdog will have broad implications for ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) requested and was granted a 90-day stay in the litigation involving ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, agreed to temporarily halt enforcement ...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the Trump administration will “have a fight on their hands” if it dismantles her ...

Certified Financial Planner Steve Overton recently joined Bloom, the globally syndicated health and wellness show, to discuss a major shift in credit reporting—the federal ...

The departure of the CFPB director comes as congressional Republicans look at changes to the agency and Democrats defend it.

This puts the CFPB's work on capping overdraft fees and cracking down on medical bills into limbo. A promised cap on overdraft fees and a ban on including medical debt on credit reports have been ...

"Medical debt is not the crisis that the Biden administration and others have made it out to be," ... [+] writes health policy expert Sally Pipes. "And the CFPB's plan to wipe medical debt could ...

Cheryl’s own story shows how, in just two weeks, an erroneous medical bill can drop an otherwise good credit score by 60 points. The CFPB gets extra credit for protecting consumers from billing ...