The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) has seen significant changes since President Donald Trump fired former Director ...

Finance companies can continue to make lending decisions based on information about medical bills contained in consumer credit reports, a judge rules.

A federal judge blocked a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have stopped medical bills from ...

The CFPB has continued to announce additional procedural, rulemaking and administrative changes, with the latest being three postings to the Federal Register on June 18, 2025: 1) a final rule ...

A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked a Biden administration rule that would have removed medical debt from credit ...

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

A federal judge in Texas has reversed a Biden administration rule that wiped medical debt from credit reports, affecting ...

Supreme Court rulings and provisions in the recently passed budget bill are bolstering the legality of the administration's ...

When the rule was issued under the Biden administration, the CFPB estimated the change would remove about $49 billion in medical bills of 15 million Americans and lead to the approval of about 22,000 ...

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

A federal judge has struck down a Biden-era rule which would have eliminated medical debt from Americans credit reports.