As prices continue to rise across the country, Americans are tacking more and more money onto their consumer debt. Americans have $1.3 trillion in credit card debt, $1.7 trillion in auto loan debt and ...

US consumer debt continued its upward climb through the end of 2025, with growth gaining momentum in the final months of the year, according to Equifax’s (NYSE: EFX) National Market Pulse report ...

Involuntary medical debt continues to impair the credit of an untold number of otherwise creditworthy Americans. Federal ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to erase a Biden-era rule that would ban the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports.

Credit card debt isn’t going away any time soon. In fact, the latest household debt report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that credit card balances rose by $44 billion in the fourth ...

Across the country, more consumers are complaining about debt collections, according to government data. Consumer protection advocates say the ballooning cost of living and weakening federal oversight ...