Reps. Bacon, Perez introduce bill to help improve credit scores
U.S. Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) recently introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to reverse federal law to report medical payments on credit reports. Currently, medical debt negatively affects credit scores, but making payments on this debt does not improve credit scores. This bill, the Reporting Medical Debt Payments as Positive Consumer Credit Information Act of 2024 (H.R. 9890), will reverse those limitations in federal law by accepting medical payments ...
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