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Account Recovery
JANUARY 7, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this morning announced the release of its final rule prohibiting the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports. This rule is expected to remove $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports, impacting approximately 15 million consumers.
Collection Industry News
MARCH 7, 2022
More than half of the debt that appears on credit reports as being in collection stems from medical bills, the agency found. Unpaid medical bills became a bigger concern during the pandemic, and now, a federal consumer agency is considering whether those debts should be banned from consumer credit reports.
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Fico Collections
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Saxon Shirley Fri, 05/20/2022 - 06:06 by FICO expand_less Back To Top Tue, 02/07/2023 - 19:10 As the independent standard in credit scoring, FICO® Scores are the leading credit scores used extensively across the lending ecosystem. million previously “unscorable” consumer files. Read the full post 3.
Collection Industry News
JUNE 10, 2024
In 2022, the three largest credit bureaus — TransUnion, Equifax and Experian — started removing paid medical debts from consumers’ credit reports. FICO® and Vantage Score, the two major credit scoring companies, have also decreased the degree to which medical bills impact credit scores.
Better Credit Blog
APRIL 5, 2022
Then kindly ask the debt collector to remove collections from your credit report out of goodwill. With some newer scoring models of FICO and VantageScore, they ignore a collection marked as “paid”, though many lenders still utilize older formulas that will still weigh a paid collection account against you. GC Services.
Account Recovery
JANUARY 30, 2025
The CFPB sent letters to lawmakers in Massachusetts, South Dakota, Oregon, and Washington, commending their efforts to ban medical debt from consumer credit reports.
Collection Industry News
JANUARY 25, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. Removing medical debts from consumer credit reportsis expected to increase the credit scores of millions of families by an average of 20 points, the bureau said.
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