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A Colorado law finds itself at odds with the Trump administration, this time over whether medical debt should be included in people’s credit reports. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said ...

A court ruling this summer canceled a President Joe Biden-era federal effort to remove medical debt from credit reports. Now the Trump administration is seeking to thwart similar state efforts, ...

The debt includes mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans. Americans’ household debt levels – including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans – are now at a new record high ...

The Trump administration plans to stop states from passing laws that keep medical debt off credit reports The new rule would give the federal government full control over credit reporting States like ...

The Trump administration has issued an interpretive rule that undermines state laws forbidding the inclusion of medical debt on consumers’ credit reports. The guideline published in the Federal ...

The Trump administration has issued new guidance that could undermine ongoing state efforts to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to overrule any state laws that may protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt and other debt issues. FACT FOCUS: Minneapolis shooting ...

The Trump administration is set to issue new guidance prohibiting states from removing medical debt from consumers’ credit reports. Fifteen states, including California, Colorado and Maine, have ...