On March 24, 2025, Senate Bill 754 (pdf) was signed into law amending the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA), the Commonwealth’s general consumer protection law. The VCPA was originally passed in ...

A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule means consumers’ hospital and doctor bills can no longer weigh down their credit scores.

Massive cuts by the Trump administration have seriously diminished the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) oversight of credit bureaus, according to a new ProPublica report. Launched in the ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

Learn how the Fair Credit Billing Act protects consumers from unfair credit card billing practices, detailing dispute rights ...

The Trump administration has issued an interpretive rule that undermines state laws forbidding the inclusion of medical debt on consumers’ credit reports. The guideline published in the Federal ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a new rule to ban excessive credit card late fees. Congress banned excessive fees in 2009, but the Federal Reserve Board of Governors issued ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest government agency potentially on President Donald Trump’s chopping block. Not only did Trump fire Rohit Chopra, who headed the independent agency ...

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...