Paying off collections improves your finances, but what happens to the negative mark on your credit report?

Negative marks on your credit report can hurt your credit score and affect your ability to qualify for loans. Here’s how to ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Complaints about credit bureaus have doubled since the pandemic began. Have you checked your credit report recently? Are you happy with what you see? A lot of your friends and ...

If deleting and reporting scam texts and phone calls has become part of your daily routine, there's another simple way to protect yourself from fraud -- and it may be more effective. Placing a fraud ...

Your credit report is getting a reader-friendly makeover. Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus, unveiled on Thursday a new design for its physical credit report, which now prominently ...

Medical debt will continue to impact credit scores after a federal judge blocked a Biden-era rule designed to erase it from credit reports. The rule aimed to improve credit scores and expand access to ...

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Here are the steps to freezing your credit online with the three credit bureaus: On your account homepage, navigate to ...

A credit freeze is an anti-fraud measure in which a credit bureau refrains from sharing a consumer’s credit report with any ...