Republican lawmakers are moving to eliminate a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule barring medical debt from ...
Reducing debt is Americans’ top financial priority for 2025. That's according to the CFP Board of Standard’s Debt and New ...
Legislation to Overturn Medical Debt Rule: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds and Representative Ralph Norman introduced resolutions to ...
When a debt collector contacts you, follow these steps to verify the debt: First, don't acknowledge the debt or provide any ...
New CFPB rules may erase $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports, boosting credit scores for 15 million Americans if enforcement proceeds.
By creating a consumer protection agency, the federal government initiated ... credit reporting and debt collection. Not only will the CFPB work to get you a response from the company, it also ...
The CFPB has been targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ... would prevent collection agencies from threatening to arrest people for debt, obtain a lien against a primary ...
Workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have been on administrative leave since February as part of a reported ...
The beneficiaries of a weakened CFPB are clear: big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors ... that undermines trust in the system. When the government favors the powerful at the expense of ...
The collection agency, which had more than 90 employees, was ordered in 2023 to pay a $1.68M penalty for violations of ...
The Trump administration is doing the bidding of big banks. Sen. Collins' focus must be on consumers in Maine.
Ben Gran is a freelance contributor for Forbes Advisor on banking. He also writes for The Ascent (a Motley Fool service), where he covers insurance, credit cards, personal finance and investing.