OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five ...

LOS ANGELES -- California lawmakers are working on a bill that promises to protect residents from having their credit rating affected by unpaid medical debt. State Sen. Monique Limon introduced Senate ...

Everyday people across the country skip medical care because of cost. Those who do seek medical help may end up with a balance they can’t pay off. That debt can hurt people’s credit scores, resulting ...

"It's sort of a head-spinning, 180-degree reversal," said Chi Chi Wu, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills that will bolster consumer protection rules in areas such as debt collection for small-business owners and overdraft-related fees charged by ...

Californians with medical debt will no longer have to worry about unpaid medical bills showing up on their credit reports under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, adding the nation’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California has the highest amount of student ...