With Trump targeting CFPB, medical debt consumer protections fall to state, legislators say
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced regulations during Biden. It is uncertain if those regulations will remain ...
How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills
Apparently, much like wedding gifts, you have a year to send someone a medical bill. And like a wedding gift, this bill ...
How the CFPB's Medical Debt Rule Could Backfire
President Donald Trump appointed Russell Vought to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Shortly after, ...
DFL lawmakers, Ellison back legislation to purchase, then forgive, Minnesotans’ medical debt
DFL lawmakers from Eagan and Rochester are teaming up with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison again for a bill that ...
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From credit cards to medical debt: What may happen to some key consumer protection rules under Trump
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...
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Political group bands together with goal of erasing Missourians' medical debt
Mid-Missouri’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has partnered with the St. Louis and Kansas City chapters to ...
Medical debt banned from credit reports | What You Need to Know
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 ...
DC nonprofit seeks to fill void of shuttered federal agency protecting consumers from medical debt
The group Tzedek D.C. wants to step in for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in helping keep medical debt off the ...
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Groups partnering to erase more than $22 million in medical debt
The Dayton Collaboratory and the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt want to wipe out more than $22.7 million in medical debt in the Dayton and Springfield region for a fraction of the cost ― or ...
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How the CFPB's Medical Debt Rule Could Backfire
The CFPB has long overstepped its authority. Its latest effort to regulate medical debt and credit reporting is a prime example. The CFPB first proposed this rule in summer 2024. Hundreds of ...