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2. Unpaid medical debt can ruin your credit. A proposed remedy ...

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   The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump allow it? Unpaid medical debt can ruin your credit.

3. Opinion - ‘Positive’ medical debt credit reporting is a ...

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   The bill doesn’t prohibit reporting negative information about medical debts, and debt collectors reporting on-time payments are likely to report missed payments as well. There is no legal need ...

4. With medical debt burdening millions, a financial regulator ...

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   A few months before that, the agency fined an Indiana company working with medical debt for violating collection laws. Regulators said the company had “risked harming consumers by pressuring or ...

5. Watchdog cracking down on medical debt collectors

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   The CFPB’s cited tactics violating federal law that debt collectors have employed when it comes to medical bills, including double billing for services covered by insurance; collecting amounts ...

6. US watchdog issues warning to medical debt collectors

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   Around 100 million Americans currently owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which issued legal guidance on what it said were illegal debt ...

7. Criticism of credit scoring systems in the United States

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   Credit scores treat medical debts the same as any other debts despite their involuntary nature (unlike opening a credit card for example). Some states have implemented laws to protect consumers against medical debts affecting their scores ranging from: [7] Prohibiting the reporting of medical debt for a certain time period after billing.

8. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act - Wikipedia

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   The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95-109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended), is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of that Act.

9. How to pay off a debt in collections

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   This federal law regulates how creditors and debt collectors can interact with you regarding debt collection. When you know your rights, you can protect yourself from unfair or abusive practices ...