Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to finalize a change that would keep most medical debt off credit reports.
Warnock joined Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is the outgoing chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, to pen a letter emphasizing the importance of finishing the job on a suite of changes first proposed in June.
“Finalizing the rule would protect families and keep them from being unjustly penalized for seeking medical care,” the pair wrote in the letter sent Tuesday.
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