The Trump administration is set to issue new guidance prohibiting states from removing medical debt from credit reports.

A federal credit reporting law generally takes precedence over state measures barring medical debt and other items on ...

Have you ever spotted a mistake on your credit report or wondered why your loan application got rejected without much explanation? If so, you’re not alone. Understanding exactly what the Fair Credit ...

Businesses need to follow the consumer protection rules of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when engaging in employee surveillance, which includes background reports about employees produced by ...

The Fair Credit Billing Act is not nearly as well-known to creditors and their counsel as its "fair credit" brother, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. But the FCBA is becoming increasingly popular among ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced a proposed new rule that all data brokers be regulated under the 1970 Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a federal law that protects the ...

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a new rule requiring data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, part of a flurry of last-minute rulemaking at the ...

A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized ruled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan ...

Like most people, you probably don’t think about your credit report until you’re alerted there’s a problem. And by then, it ...

"This case was easy to predict. If a credit agency reports a consumer as dead, it only makes sense for them to be held accountable," said Daniel Zemel, an attorney based in Paterson, New Jersey, on ...