The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced regulations during Biden. It is uncertain if those regulations will remain ...

CFPB says that in 2022 there were 1.7 million adults in U.S. who were widowed in the past 12 months. Average age was 71 and ...

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 ...

In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior months covered during the December 2024 webinar.

On Thursday, the CFPB agreed to put the medical debt rule on hold for 90 days and hold off on litigation for three months. The bureau did not oppose a preliminary injunction granted by the U.S.

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 ...