On February 6, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a 90-day stay of the upcoming March 17 effective date of the ...

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

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...

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 ...

On Thursday, the CFPB agreed to put the medical debt rule on hold for 90 days and hold off on litigation for three months. The bureau did not oppose a preliminary injunction granted by the U.S.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On February 6, a judge for the United District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a 90-day stay on the CFPB’s ...

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

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

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 ...