Scammers exploit retirees' trust and assets through fake debt collection calls, but proper verification methods and reporting ...

Though he feels the debt is invalid, ignoring the collections notice isn’t a wise idea. Whether or not this bill was meant to ...

Unpaid medical debt will no longer affect credit scores, according to a new rule from Biden administration regulators who want to mitigate the financial repercussions of those bills. So if pending ...

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DALLAS — Many Americans almost saw their credit scores improve under a rule that was finalized late in the Biden presidency. But ultimately, the rule was killed after President Biden left office. The ...

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The numbers: Revolving credit, mainly credit cards, declined for the second straight month in June, the Federal Reserve said. Revolving credit fell at a 1% rate in June after a 3.5% drop in the prior ...

The consumer-friendly Medical Debt Rule, enacted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) at the end of the Biden administration, has been thrown out by a judge in Texas. The rule would have ...

Finland suffered its first downgrade in almost a decade after Fitch Ratings cut the Nordic country’s credit rating over its failure to rein in ballooning debt. Fitch late on Friday lowered Finland’s ...

A plan promising relief from having medical debt listed on the credit reports, including hundreds of residents of Forsyth and Guilford counties, has been dashed before it was ever implemented. Judge ...

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The Trump administration joined with trade groups to ask a court to overturn a Biden-era rule that aimed to limit the impact of unpaid medical bills on consumers’ credit history. By Stacy Cowley In ...