The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million for credit reporting errors. The CFPB alleged the credit ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million for credit reporting errors. The CFPB alleged the credit ...

Without admitting or denying the findings, Equifax has agreed to pay a $15 million civil monetary penalty that will be deposited into the CFPB's victims relief fund. A representative for Equifax ...

Se prevé que la eliminación de las deudas médicas de los informes de crédito de los consumidores aumente las puntuaciones ...

Last year was dominated by a dramatic presidential election and an economy that, while strong on paper, didn’t feel that way ...

The New York Attorney General announced a settlement with Equifax over inaccuracies in credit scores for New Yorkers. This issue affected about 77,000 residents due to a coding mistake, according to ...

President Joe Biden finalized a rule that eliminates unpaid medical bills from credit reports, a change expected to free ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a rule to keep medical bills off of consumers’ credit reports.

Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business loans ...

The CFPB has sued Experian, claiming the company failed to properly investigate consumer credit report disputes.

Medical debt ought to be a different case because credit-score blemishes connected to health scares and unforeseen medical mishaps aren't a good gauge of a person's ability to repay other loans, CFPB ...

The administration announced plans for the rule in fall 2023. The CFPB said that medical debt is a poor predictor of an ...