Editorial: Keep Medical Debt Off Credit Score Reporting

Editorial: Keep medical debt off credit score reporting

HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington The federal CFPB is challenging a state law that bars medical debt from credit bureaus’ consideration. Editorial: Keep medical debt off credit score reporting Wire Service

WA’s new ban on medical debt in credit reports at risk of federal override • Washington State Standard

Gov. Bob Ferguson signing Senate Bill 5480, a bill exempting medical debt from credit reports, on April 22, 2025. (Photo by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero/Washington State Standard)Just months after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a Washington law to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports, the Trump administration is looking to block such policies. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now says federal law preempts laws like Washington’s.…

Colorado ban on medical debt on credit reports challenged after new Trump administration rule

A cancer patient’s medical bills are spread on a kitchen table in a home in Salem, Va., in this 2011 file photo. A new Trump administration rule would override more than a dozen state laws that shield consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. (Photo by Don Petersen/Associated Press)A Colorado law that prevents medical debt from appearing on consumer credit reports is facing a new legal challenge following guidance from the Trump administratio…

Feds tell Maryland not to remove medical debt from credit scores

A Maryland law aimed at keeping medical debt from ruining people’s creditworthiness went into effect Oct. 1, and 27 days later the Trump administration said the state and 14 others were violating federal law.