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A pay-for-delete agreement is a credit repair tactic that could help erase collection accounts from your credit report. It involves offering to settle your debt in exchange for the collection agency ...

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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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Governor Bob Ferguson signed a new law on Tuesday that will prevent medical debt from impacting credit scores in Washington state. The bipartisan legislation, Senate Bill 5480, was ...

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 ...