Steve Michell, a 52-year-old engineer from Texas, spent five years trying to achieve a perfect credit score of 850. He closed ...

Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent government agency, announced two big actions relating to our ...

The Biden administration finalized a new rule that will prevent Americans from the harm caused by medical debt, including ...

The rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of millions of Americans.

Medical debt — a burden for nearly 15 million people in the country — will no longer haunt consumers' credit reports, according to a new federal rule that was finalized on Tuesday.