The CFPB pushed further, however, finalizing a rule in early January barring all medical debt from influencing people’s ...

In a win for credit bureaus and debt collectors, medical debt will be allowed to stay on your credit report after all.

On July 18, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule ... These novel interpretations depart from precedent, reverse the CFPB’s own recent positions, ...

A US judge has blocked a rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. The rule, introduced by the Consumer ...

According to the CFPB, medical bills accounted for more than half of debt collections on credit records in 2022. Patricia ...

A judge blocked a Biden-era rule that would have removed medical debt from credit reports, siding with industry arguments ...

Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden in December vetoed a congressional resolution to reverse the CFPB's rule, saying it would hinder the government's ability to conduct oversight of predatory lenders.

On May 14, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a proposed rule to rescind amendments to its Procedures for Supervisory Designation Proceedings, originally adopted ...

CFPB is poised to abandon interpretive rule that would have subjected BNPL "pay-in-four" lenders to ... This reversal comes amid broader changes at the CFPB following President Donald Trump’s ...

A federal judge has overturned a Biden-era rule that kept $49B in medical debt off of millions of people's credit scores, potentially harming their ability to obtain credit and buy a home.

On Wednesday, a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit vacated the CFPB's payday lending rule that had been challenged by two Texas trade associations. The three judges ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s work to protect Americans from predatory loans has reached an important crossroads. The youngest federal agency, created by Congress after the financial ...