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코로나바이러스 팬데믹 기간 동안 재정적 보호자를 위한 팁

사기꾼들은 목표 대상을 지인이든 아니든 고령층으로 설정하는 경우가 많은데, 이는 고령층이 많은 자산을 보유하고 있거나, 은퇴 연금이나 저축 등의 형태로 고정 소득이 있으며, 친절하고 다른 사람을 잘 믿는 경향이 있기 때문입니다.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Forty organizations join the 2019 Your Money, Your Goals cohort

The Bureau welcomes 40 organizations to the 2019 Your Money, Your Goals cohort. Public and private organizations working in community, faith-based, workplace, academic and prison settings will receive training and technical assistance to expand the reach of financial empowerment tools and information to economically vulnerable consumers.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Check your mailbox: Veterans with severe disabilities and student loans should keep an eye out for this

The Department of Education is sending letters to veterans with severe disabilities notifying them that they may be eligible for a tax-free discharge of their outstanding student loans. Here’s what to look for if you’re eligible.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Help is here for people with severe disabilities struggling with student loans

Borrowers whose student loans are forgiven due to death or disability will no longer have to pay federal income taxes on those forgiven loans. Now, tens of thousands of disabled veterans and hundreds of thousands of people living with severe disabilities are eligible for new student loan protections.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Photo of a person holding the Focus on People with Disabilities guide.

New financial empowerment tools for people with disabilities

As we observe the 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we are announcing a new financial empowerment tool for people with disabilities. Our companion guide contains information and tips based on insights from people with disabilities and organizations that serve the disability community.

Category: At the CFPB |
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Americans with disabilities have the right to improve their financial lives

Americans with disabilities disproportionately live in poverty; are more than twice as likely to use nonbank financial services such as payday loans and check cashing; and 80 percent have no emergency savings to absorb a financial shock. Americans with disabilities, like all consumers, have the right to fair treatment in the financial marketplace and access to tools that can help them improve their financial lives.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Working to improve the financial lives of people with disabilities

Our job is to empower consumers by providing them with the information they need to make the best financial decisions for themselves and their families. As part of our mission to protect and empower all consumers, we’re launching ROADS (Reach Outcomes. Achieve Dreams. Succeed) to Financial Independence – a first-of-its-kind nationwide initiative to provide financial counseling services to people with disabilities who are working or transitioning into the workforce.

Category: Data, research, and reports |
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We’re making progress toward ensuring fair access to credit

We’re releasing our third annual Fair Lending Report, which details the important strides we have taken over the last year to protect consumers from credit discrimination and increase access to credit.

Category: Policy and compliance |
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Social Security disability income shouldn’t mean you don’t qualify for a mortgage

Today, we’re reminding lenders that placing unnecessary documentation requirements on recipients of Social Security disability income, including disabled veterans, may raise fair lending concerns. Following the guidelines and standards noted in the bulletin may help lenders comply with fair lending laws.

Category: At the CFPB |
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A federal partnership to increase financial capability for workers with disabilities

We know that individuals with disabilities often face barriers and challenges in moving toward economic security and self-sufficiency. That’s why we’re committed to making sure that these individuals have the help and support they need to begin planning and saving for their financial goals. Over the past year, our team has traveled across the country; […]

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How do you build financial capability?

In case you missed it, we’re gathering information on how to build financial capabilities for people with disabilities, veterans in transition, and people who are economically vulnerable. If you or your organization would like to contribute, please send us your comments by 4 p.m. ET on Friday April 12, 2013. Americans with disabilities CFPB is […]