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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new ...

You gain an extra hour on Nov. 2, thanks to the seasonal time change. Why not spend it fixing your finances? Personal finance can be daunting. Few consumers relish the thought of reading a credit ...

Whether you share one credit card account or you juggle multiple cards at once, managing credit cards with a partner requires a lot of coordination. It’s not just about day-to-day spending decisions ...

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It would have seemed almost unthinkable for most private credit managers just a few years ago: Updating the value of their portfolios on a monthly basis. After all, the opacity was part of the draw — ...

Members of Generation Z have experienced the sharpest decline in credit health this year, The News York Times reported Saturday, citing FICO’s new Credit Insights Report. Their average FICO score fell ...

The August 2025 credit card data analysis from global analytics software leader FICO shows that the average active balance continues to trend up, accelerating to its highest level yet, while the ...