Maybe, but they can't do anything that you couldn't do yourself for free.   — -- The answer is maybe -- but they can't do anything that you couldn't do yourself, for free. Anything on your ...

A big part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s potential to help consumers is its ability to supervise nonbank participants in the financial industry. This far-ranging swath of companies ...

When you apply for a credit card or loan, the bank will likely pull a credit report. Those credit reports are pulled from consumer reporting agencies. The most familiar consumer reporting agencies are ...

Credit card issuers often report to the credit bureaus at the end of every billing cycle, but the exact dates can vary. Activities like on-time or late payments and credit utilization are reported, ...

Robin has worked as a credit cards, editor and spokesperson for over a decade. Prior to Forbes Advisor, she also covered credit cards and related content for other national web publications including ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it finalized a rule to remove all medical debt from credit reports used by lenders. This new rule will impact about 15 million consumers, ...

David Deeds is in financial trouble, and he's hoping a federal court in Texas can help get him out of it. Deeds, who is 62 and owes tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt from cancer treatment, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million over errors tied to consumer credit reports, alleging the company failed to conduct proper investigations of disputed information, ...

Vanessa Romo is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers breaking news on a wide range of topics, weighing in daily on everything from immigration and the treatment of migrant children, to a ...

A U.S. District Court judge in the Eastern District of Texas has twice ordered a stay of the medical debt rule, which was supposed to take effect on March 15. It is now delayed to start on July 28.