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Negative marks on your credit report can hurt your credit score and affect your ability to qualify for financial products, so it’s often stressful to discover them. But if an inaccurate item is ...

Unpaid debts and delinquent accounts can remain on your credit report for seven years. Sometimes, debts that are sold to collections remain on your credit report longer than they should. The ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would remove medical bills from credit reports, a ban that would prevent lenders from considering those debts when making decisions ...

The Washington State Senate has approved a measure that would remove medical debt from credit score reporting. The measure, introduced in late January, declares a medical debt “void and unenforceable ...

After recent policy changes removing most medical debts from credit reports, Americans are seeing their credit scores increase, but experts warn of the need to monitor billing and collection practices ...

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