On February 6, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a 90-day stay of the upcoming March 17 effective date of the ...

The Trump administration's bid to reduce the authority of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has advanced, with ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, agreed to temporarily halt enforcement ...

Certified Financial Planner Steve Overton recently joined Bloom, the globally syndicated health and wellness show, to discuss a major shift in credit reporting—the federal ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...

SS: Any comment on President Donald J. Trump moving to reverse medical debt and overdraft protections that the CFPB had implemented? RL: We don’t yet know how far this enforcement freeze will go ...

In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was ...

Overdraft fees currently run about $35 on average. The CFPB finalized a rule in January that would remove medical debt from credit reports. The agency had said the change could potentially improve ...

This puts the CFPB's work on capping overdraft fees and cracking down on medical bills into limbo. A promised cap on overdraft fees and a ban on including medical debt on credit reports have been ...

For a long time, Misty Castaneda had terrible credit. Even though she had health insurance, the hair stylist from Colorado owed a hospital around $20,000 for a $200,000 open-heart surgery in 2010 ...

That rule is scheduled to go into effect on March 12. Download PDF CFPB projects 800,000 North Carolinians who have medical debt on their credit reports would benefit from the rule. “People who ...