The ruling targets a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would have removed medical debt from 15 million credit ...

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

A federal judge has halted a CFPB rule aimed at removing unpaid medical debt from credit reports, impacting 15 million Americans. The decision underscores the ongoing debate over the role of medical ...

Consumers were dealt a blow after a federal judge in Texas voided a Biden-era rule that would ban the inclusion of medical ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked a key rule that would have removed medical debt from the credit reports of roughly 15 ...

Americans’ unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week vacated a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such ...

CFPB research has indicated that medical debt on credit reports is “a poor predictor” of whether a person will repay a loan, ...

On July 11, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated the CFPB’s medical debt rule on the grounds that it exceeded ...

A federal judge has granted trade associations and the Trump administration’s request to vacate a Consumer Financial ...

The rule would have removed more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans, the ...

The three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — announced last year that they would remove ...

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