Photo: Francois PICARD / AFP (Getty Images) Medical debt is an albatross hung around the necks of Americans—but some relief is on the way. Over the weekend, three of the country’s major credit reporting agencies announced they would soon remove most medical debt from their calculation of credit reports, along with other reforms. The decision […]
The biggest credit-reporting firms will strip tens of billions of dollars in medical debt from consumers’ credit reports, erasing a black mark that makes it harder for millions of Americans to borrow. Equifax Inc., EFX 0.71% Experian EXPGY 1.72% PLC and TransUnion TRU -0.99% are making broad changes to how they report medical debt beginning […]
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