In a significant move toward enhancing consumer financial health, AnnualCreditReport.com, the centralized platform for free credit reports, has expanded its services to allow individuals to access ...

Your credit score and credit report can help you make sense of your overall credit history and get a better understanding of your creditworthiness. Both can illustrate what kind of borrower you are, ...

Yes, you can get a free credit report and credit score online. There’s no payment or credit card information required an ...

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Natalie Campisi is a senior journalist who covers personal finance, balancing timely news with in-depth enterprise reporting. Her mission is to make complex financial issues clear and accessible for ...

If deleting and reporting scam texts and phone calls has become part of your daily routine, there's another simple way to protect yourself from fraud -- and it may be more effective. Placing a fraud ...

DALLAS — Your credit report and credit score could start to look a lot better after March 17 of this year. You have probably seen recent headlines like this one and this one explaining that medical ...

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This week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it will begin a process that could result in removing medical debt from credit reports. This will affect consumer finances in ...

The share of American consumers with medical debt on their credit reports has declined dramatically over the last year as major credit rating agencies removed small unpaid bills and debts that were ...

Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If enacted, the ...